It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman, love comes after marriage.” “Oh, Pa, that’s such an Old Country notion!” “And a good notion it is! All this American business of running around marrying for love, like servants, like Yankees! The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.

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

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

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