Margaret Mitchell — Quotes from Author's Books

It was so good to have a man beside her, to lean close to him and feel the hard swell of his arm and know that he stood between her and unnamable terrors, even though he merely sat there and stared.

You think that by saying, 'I'm sorry,' all the errors and hurts of years past can be remedied, obliterated from the mind, all the poison drawn from old wounds...

Never pass up new experiences. They enrich the mind.

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more--and by remembering too much.

I can’t think now. I’ll think later, when I can stand it—when I can’t see his eyes.

And apologies, once postponed, became harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

Hardships make or break people.

I've ever been strong, it was because she was behind me.

But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?... Mine wore out... Did it ever occur to you that I loved you as much as a man can love a woman? Loved you for years before I finally got you? During the war I'd go away and try to forget you, but I couldn't and I always had to come back.... I loved you but I couldn't let you know it. You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

..your farther...was a hero, Wade. He married your mother, didn't he? Well, that's proof enough of heroism.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

... desire and attainment were two different matters.

If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn’t sanctify the railroad company, would it?

Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Everybody thinks differently and everybody's got a right to their own opinion.