Hardships make or break people.

men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.

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.

The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.