Merely a matter of time. Hard times were just temporary.
And apologies, once postponed, became harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.
"Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world."
"Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness."
When you are trying to get something out of a man, don't blurt it out as you did to me. Do try to be more subtle, more seductive. It gets better results.
Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.
And when it comes to something that's unpleasant but can't be helped, I don't see any sense in screaming and kicking about it.
His mouth was on hers again and she surrendered without a struggle, too weak even to turn her head, without even the desire to turn it, her heart shaking her with its poundings, fear of his strength and her nerveless weakness sweeping her. What was he going to do? She would faint if he did not stop. If he would only stop--if he would never stop.
Rhett to Scarlett
It had been her experience that the liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor.
Sometimes he was odious. In fact, most of the time he was odious.
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