He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.
He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.
I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.
Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.
They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it's because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set quite a store by such things.
Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.
In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.
Out of the welter of rapture and anger and heartbreak and hurt pride that he had left, depression emerged to sit upon her shoulder like a carrion crow.
They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.
How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!
It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.
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.
They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.
How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!
It 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.
Scarlett, always save something to fear-even as you save something to love.
Tuijottaessaan Williin hämärässä hallissa Ashley mietti, ettei hän kenessäkään ollut kohdannut sen veroista sankaruutta kuin Scarlett O'Harassa, joka läksi valloittamaan maailmaa äitinsä samettisissa ikkunaverhoissa ja kukon pyrstösulka hatussaan.
A pain slashed through her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.
I Can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.
It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.
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
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.
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.
I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.
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.
Voi Scarlett, sinä olet huono valehtelemaan! Niin, elämässä on nyt loistoa - eräänlaista. Siinähän vika juuri onkin. Entisissä ajoissa ei ollut loistoa, mutta niissä oli suloa, kauneutta, hiljaista taikaa.
And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.
I will think about that tomorrow!
Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.
Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.
And don't think you can lay down the load, ever. Because you can't. I know.
I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't..My dear, I don't give a damn.
Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.
What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.
Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler
She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires.
Yankees in Georgia! How did they ever get in?
Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.
I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.
Melly couldn't say boo to a goose.
She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.
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.
Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.
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