Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.

Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.

If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.

If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.