Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.

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.

Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?

The happiest days are when babies come.

All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin in any society. The mere fact that you have succeed to run the mill is an insult to everyman who hasn't succeed.

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