There can't ever be happiness except when like mates like.
She had to lose them all to realize that she loved Rhett--loved him because he was strong and unscrupulous, passionate and earthy, like herself.
What I want I take if I can get it, and so I wrestle neither with angels nor devils.
Laugh, if you like, but I wanted to take care of you, to pet you, to give you everything you wanted. I wanted to marry you and protect you and give you a free rein in anything that would make you happy. You'd had such a struggle. No one knew better than I what you'd gone through and I wanted you to stop fighting and let me fight for you. I wanted you to play, like a child--for you were a child, a brave, frightened, bullheaded child. I think you are still a child. No one but a child could be so headstrong and so insensitive.
Only when like marries like can there be any happiness.
Eavesdroppers often hear highly entertaining and instructive things.
I want you more than I have ever wanted any woman—and I’ve waited longer for you than I’ve ever waited for any woman.
I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back... This is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heartbreak, this discontent.
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