01c. 1924 ADAs God is my witness, as God is my witness they’re not going to lick me. I’m going to live through this and when it’s all over, I’ll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again. - ScarlettMargaret Mitchell / quote ↗
02c. 1924 ADI was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
03c. 1924 ADI do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
05c. 1924 ADYou must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
06c. 1924 AD[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
07c. 1924 ADSuddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses with an air that she could never attain, would never wish to attain. She hated them, these smiling, light-footed strangers, these proud fools who took pride in something they had lost, seeming to be proud that they had lost it.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
08c. 1924 ADShe had never understood either of the men she had loved and so she had lost them both. Now, she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
09c. 1924 ADThis is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heart-break, this discontentMargaret Mitchell / quote ↗
10c. 1924 ADBut, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
11c. 1924 ADPride & honor & truth & virtue & kindliness," he enumerated silkily. "You are right, Scarlett. They aren't important when a boat is sinking. But look around you at your friends. Either they are bringing their boats ashore safely with cargoes intact or they are content to go down with all flags flying.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
12c. 1924 ADI wish to Heaven I was married," she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing. "I'm tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I'm tired of acting like I don't eat more than a bird, and walking when I want to run and saying I feel faint after a waltz, when I could dance for two days and never get tired. I'm tired of saying, 'How wonderful you are!' to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it... I can't eat another bite.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
13c. 1924 ADmen are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters themMargaret Mitchell / quote ↗
14c. 1924 ADIt was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
15c. 1924 ADVanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
17c. 1924 ADHe knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination that would not recognize defeat, and kept on fighting even when she saw defeat was inevitable.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
18c. 1924 ADBut there was a difference in their hardness and hers and just what the difference was, she could not, for the moment, tell. Perhaps it was that there was nothing she would not do, and there were so many things these people would rather die than do. Perhaps it was that they were without hope but still smiling at life, bowing gracefully and passing it by. And this Scarlett could not do. She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile. Of the sweetness and courage and unyielding pride of her friends, Scarlett saw nothing. She saw only a silly stiff-neckedness which observed facts but smiled and refused to look them in the face.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
20c. 1924 ADYou are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—”He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
22c. 1924 ADFighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
23c. 1924 ADTo Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.Margaret Mitchell / quote ↗
