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.

men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

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

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)