You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

God help the man who ever really loves you.

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.