He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.

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

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

All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.

Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler

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 the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation.

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.