Margaret Mitchell

"To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her."

"I stood there in the doorway before you saw me and I watched you,' he said.'And I watched the other girls. And they all looked as though their faces came out of one mold. Yours didn’t."

"Men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them."

"[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured."