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

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.

I will think about that tomorrow!

Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

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.

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'?