“You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles' sabre in her hand. Scarlett remembered that she had thought at the time: 'How silly! Melly couldn't even heft that sword!' But now she knew that had the necessity arisen, Melanie would have charged down those stairs and killed the Yankee - or been killed herself.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
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