Mar*jo

“It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over."

"Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I was right when I said I’d never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can’t ever do anything else except look back.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind