I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery.

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

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.

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