I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.

And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.

Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.

She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.