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

Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation.

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.

I will think about that tomorrow!

Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.

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.

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.