But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.

I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

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.

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I'd ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws.

She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.