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‘I don’t like Mammy Jincy’s fortunes. You know she said I was going to marry a gentleman with jet-black hair and a long black moustache, and I don’t like black-haired gentlemen.’
that's called foreshadowing
‘Mother was only fifteen when she married you, and I’m sixteen,’ said Scarlett, her voice muffled.
that.is.wild
‘Now, don’t be jerking your chin at me,’ warned Gerald. ‘If you had any sense you’d have married Stuart or Brent Tarleton long ago.
Bro how lobg ago shes sixteen
Ellen O’Hara was thirty-two years old,
bro what
Aunt Pittypat had been christened Sarah Jane Hamilton sixty years before, but since the long-past day when her doting father had fastened this nickname upon her, because of her airy, restless, pattering little feet, no one had called her anything else.
Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.’
wars are sacred,’ he said. ‘To those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?
‘But there are others, scoundrels, who masquerade under the cloak of the blockader for their own selfish gains,
On came the blue lines, relentlessly, like a monster serpent, coiling, striking venomously, drawing its injured lengths back, but always striking again.
that is such an incredible description
His body seemed so tough and hard, as tough and hard as his keen mind.
People’s faces looked pinched and the few soldiers Scarlett saw wore the exhausted look of racers forcing themselves on through the last lap of a race already lost.
‘You’ll go or I’ll sell you down the river. You’ll never see your mother again or anybody you know and I’ll sell you for a field hand too. Hurry!’
gurrrrlll calm down
’Tis the only thing worth working for, fighting for, dying for.’
Ellen was the audience before which the blustering drama of Gerald O’Hara had been played. Now the curtain had been rung down forever, the footlights dimmed and the audience suddenly vanished, while the stunned old actor remained on his empty stage, waiting for his cues.
‘Child, it’s a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she’s faced the worst she can’t ever really fear anything again. And it’s very bad for a woman not to be afraid of something.
‘And you look like the end man in a minstrel show,’ replied Melanie equably. ‘Why did you have to hit me?’ ‘Because, my darling, your back was on fire.
You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination
Is that a compliment?
I’ve seen eyes like yours above a duelling pistol twenty paces from me and they aren’t a pleasant sight.
Do you see what I mean?’ ‘Um.’ ‘I’m glad you agree with me, Miss Scarlett.
me when i'm explaining my book to people
Suellen didn’t deserve a loving husband and the profits of a store and a sawmill.
Tbh i agree
And how brave and silly to try her hand at making money by her needle.
Scarlett sily? HELP IM WHEEZING
But, no matter what sights they had seen, what menial tasks they had done and would have to do, they remained ladies and gentlemen, royalty in exile—bitter, aloof, incurious, kind to one another, diamond hard, as bright and brittle as the crystals of the broken chandelier over their heads.
Go into business for herself! It was unthinkable.
Stfu
drowsy-eyed Ashley
and this is what supposed to be hot
she knew she could make money if only she could stay out of jail.
‘Death and taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them!’
foolish honour he valued more than love.
Pov cal calore and kai azer
I’ve lived with Melly long enough to know she’s sickly and scared and hasn’t the gumption to say Boo to a goose.’ ‘Now why on earth should anyone want to say Boo to a goose? It always sounded like a waste of time to me.
Melanie flew at Ashley like a small determined dove and pecked him for the first time in her life.
‘My pet, I’ve been to the devil and he’s a very dull fellow. I won’t go there again, even for you
It was a ragged copy of Les Misérables, that book which caught the fancy of the Confederate soldiers. They had read it by camp-fire light and took some grim pleasure in calling it ‘Lee’s Miserables’.
Shot through the head.’
"And you're to blame"
pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
‘Caveat Emptorium’,
I’ll teach my grandchildren to hate these people—and my grandchildren’s grandchildren
Thats not very healthy
And he has taken you who were so sweet and generous and gentle, for all
Welcome to the cap shop Ashley what type
of cap will you be buying
‘Have you a kiss for your sweetheart?’ She wrinkled her small upturned nose and wriggled to get down from his arms. ‘No,’ she said frankly. ‘Nasty.’ ‘I’m what?’ ‘Smell nasty. Uncle Ashley don’t smell nasty.’ ‘Well, I’ll be damned,’ he said ruefully, putting her on the floor. ‘I never expected to find a temperance advocate in my own home, of all places!’
‘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.’
She turned and there stood India, white-faced, her pale eyes blazing, and Archie, malevolent as a one-eyed parrot. Behind them stood Mrs Elsing.
How could a husband and a wife cut each other to pieces with such sharp knives?
And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.
