Gone With The Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

Violent blood was in them all, perilously close to the surface, lurking just beneath the kindly courteous exteriors.

to die in the twilight of the Confederacy, to freeze in the snow and sleet of that last campaign in Tennessee.

"He was what is pointed out as a fine old gentleman of the old school which means that he was ignorant, thick headed, intolerant and incapable of thinking along any lines except what other gentlemen of the old school thought.

People must do what they must do. We don't all think alike or act alike and it's wrong to--to judge others by ourselves.

the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

the first unbearable anguish was fading into resigned acceptance of her loss. Yet this eerie sense of disaster to come persisted, as though something black and hooded stood just at her shoulder, as though the ground beneath her feet might turn to quicksand as she trod upon it.

she could not face life without the terrible strength of the weak, the gentle, the tender hearted.

I can stand anything. I've had to stand so much.

though she had won material safety since that night, in her dreams she was still a frightened child, searching for the lost security of that lost world.