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.

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

The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.

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 she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.