I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley... I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all - what do they know about women? What do they know about you? I know you.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

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

what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

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)

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.