Margaret Mitchell citations

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“Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.”

“Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.”

“His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.”

“Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.”

“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.”

“Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way”

“What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.”