He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!

To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.

They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.

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.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

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.