If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

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.

She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.