Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead..

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace..

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so plea….

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents..

Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm g….

Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, muc….

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day..

So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that ….

She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern..

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, stron….

I loved something I made up.

How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to sav….

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient..

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite..

It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very much money, and someone else ha….

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything..

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face..

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ….

Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at th….

A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom..