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.

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

Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies & turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom nothing was left from the wreckage except the indestructible red earth on which she stood.

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

I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

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