Melly is the only woman friend I ever had, ” she thought forlornly, “the only woman except Mother who really loved me. She’s like Mother, too. Everyone who knew her has clung to her skirts.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

After all, tomorrow is another day.

Hardships make or break people.

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.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

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

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game ... confidence makes the difference.

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.

Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago -- throw them in the cage - as if that's the whole answer. And it's not the whole answer.

Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.

A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!

The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.