I love you...I've always loved you. I've never loved anybody else. I just married Charlie to - to try to hurt you. Oh, Ashley, I love you so much I'd walk every step of the way to Virginia just to be near you! And I'd cook for you and polish your boots and groom your horse - Ashley, say you love me! I'll live on it for the rest of my life!
Margaret MitchellShe felt puzzled and ashamed, as always when people attributed to her emotions and motives they possessed and thought she shared.
Margaret MitchellShe was going to rush into life and wrest from it what she could.
Margaret MitchellShe was a tiny, frailly built girl, who gave the appearance of a child masquerading in her mother’s enormous hoop skirts – an illusion that was heightened by the shy, almost frightened look in her too large brown eyes. She had a cloud of curly dark hair which was so sternly repressed beneath its net that no vagrant tendrils escaped, and this dark mass, with its long widow’s peak, accentuated the heart shape of her face. Too wide across the cheek bones, too pointed at the chin, it was a sweet, timid face but a plain face, and she had no feminine tricks of allure to make observers forget its plainness. She looked – and was, as simple as earth, as good as bread, as transparent as spring water.
Margaret MitchellHer manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.
Margaret MitchellI was right when I said I’d never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can’t ever do anything else except look back.
Margaret MitchellWhat’s 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 live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.
Margaret MitchellShe 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 MitchellThere’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.
Margaret MitchellTag: money truth civilization wreck
A minor point at such a moment.
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