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.

She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)

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.

Ser eyes met his, hers naked with pleading, his remote as mountain lakes under gray skies. She saw in them defeat of her wild dream, her mad desires.

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.