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.