And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.

To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for

If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.

Scarlett O'Hara did the most courageous thing she had ever been called on to do. She faced up to failure.

How could a man know the truth of his own soul?

To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for...

Something happens to people when they're masked. They become too free, uncivilized. They may do anything.

If you're afraid to smile, you're afraid of life.

Choas errupted amoung the watchers. They didn't think it was over at all. "He cheated! He used fire!""No, he won fairly enough!"

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.

You gotta do common things, uncommonly well.

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.

That tastes like hope feels.

The first two days of a vacation are endless; then it flies.