Margaret Mitchell: Quotes about love

“You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.”

“If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.”

“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…. Scarlett, always save something to fear— even as you save something to love…”

“Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.”

“Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.”

“I only know that I love you.
That's your misfortune.”

“God help the man who ever really loves you.”

“There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..”

“They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.”

“But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?”

“They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.”