you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'?

She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.