Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

I can’t forget. I won’t forget. I won’t let my Beau forget and I’ll teach my grandchildren to hate these people—and my grandchildren’s grandchildren if God lets me live that long! Scarlett, how can you forget?”

“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it’s no worse than it is.”

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.