“But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“She was less frightened also because life had taken on the quality of a dream, a dream too terrible to be real. It wasn’t possible that she, Scarlett O’Hara, should be in such a predicament, with the danger of death about her every hour, every minute. It wasn’t possible that the quiet tenor of life could have changed so completely in so short a time.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“They burned you,” she [Scarlett] thought, “and they laid you flat. But they didn’t lick you. They couldn’t lick you. You’ll grow back just as big and sassy as you used to be!”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything...for 'tis the only thing in this world that lasts, and don't you be forgetting it! 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for–worth dying for.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
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