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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c586e57 | Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 25da868 | Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at .. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 10b9568 | In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures. Really, it took a lot of sense to cultivate and hold such a pose. | women upbringing helplessness ladies | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 64b3ee1 | Melly couldn't say boo to a goose. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| e133abd | If! If! If There were so many ifs in life, never any certainty of anything, never any security... | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| db8a030 | Sometimes she thought that all the people she had ever known were strangers except Rhett. "Can't" | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| a8d96df | Then he had thought it all beyond her mental grasp and it had been pleasant to explain things to her. 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. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 601263d | It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who become enraged when called by their right names. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 8fcfc6e | There was madness and magic in the slim body he held, and the lips turned up to him were red and trembling and he kissed her. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| bb23542 | Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything...for 'tis the only thing in this world that lasts, and don't you be forgetting it! 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for-worth dying for. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| ed5b61b | The week passed by swiftly, like a dream....a dream where minutes flew as rapidly as heartbeats. Such a breathless week when something within her drove Scarlett with mingled pain and pleasure to pack and cram every minute with incidents to remember after he was gone, happenings which she could examine at leisure in the long months ahead, extracting every morsel of comfort from them - dance, sing, laugh, fetch and carry for Ashley, anticipat.. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 3cc0958 | I've felt that I was trying to row a heavily loaded boat in a storm. I've had so much trouble just trying to keep afloat that I couldn't be bothered about things that didn't matter, things I could part with easily and not miss, like good manners and--well, things like that. I've been too afraid my boat would be swamped and so I've dumped overboard the things that seemed least important. | gone-with-the-wind hardship | Margaret Mitchell | |
| acb1a61 | She wanted to cry but the tears would not come. They seemed to flood her chest, and they were hot tears that burned under her bosom, but they would not flow. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| c51807f | Didn't you get the money for the taxes? Don't tell me the wolf is still at the door of Tara." There was a different tone in his voice. She looked up to meet his dark eyes and caught an expression which startled and puzzled her at first, and then made her suddenly smile, a sweet and charming smile which was seldom on her face these days. What a perverse wretch he was, but how nice he could be at times! She knew now that the real reason for h.. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 5c065c9 | Scarlett) Go on! Go on now! I want you to hurry. I don't want to ever see you again. I hope a cannon ball lands right on you. I hope it blows you to a million pieces. I-- (Rhett) Never mind the rest. I follow your general idea. When I'm dead on the altar of my country, I hope your conscience hurts you. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 05b54dd | You need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| f979606 | Oh, Rhett, why do there have to be wars? It would have been so much better for the Yankees to pay for the darkies--or even for us to give them the darkies free of charge than to have this happen." "It isn't the darkies, Scarlett. They're just the excuse. There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do--yea, passing the love of women." | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 1367bb7 | Debt Chauffeur, that's my name for him now, wants to marry me. He asked me down on bended knee, and I would have been honored - except he wants us to live in London, and he wants me to live white. I crowed at that. I laughed so hard and not a tear came. He couldn't understand it. I don't often think on how white I look; it's always been a question of how colored I feel, and I feel plenty colored. He said that no one in London will know that.. | born-into-slavery mulatto the-wind-done-gone marriage-proposal | Alice Randall | |
| 5a7472d | Though many desperately and relentlessly cling to old, divisive ideas in the face of a future that looks complex and uncertain, no one can legitimately portray themselves as members or practitioners of the one true faith, the superior race, the best culture. No one can say, with the image of the blue and green Earth floating in their heads, that others don't count as much as "we" do, that others don't hold the same status as we do, are not .. | Roméo Dallaire | ||
| 5ee56b4 | The young activist who recycles Robert F. Kennedy's line "There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why . . . I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" has no idea he's a walking, talking cliche, a non-conformist in theory while a predictable conformist in fact. But he also has no idea he's tapping into his inner utopian.... RFK didn't coin the phrase (JFK didn't either, but he did use it first). The line actu.. | Jonah Goldberg | ||
| 5cbd022 | You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are... | Adam Rex | ||
| 8857e26 | I meow now?" hissed J.Lo when she was gone. "What comes next? Do I juggle fire?" "Look, I'm sorry, but it's good this happened. Mrs. Hoegaarden will probably tell people you meow, and we'll spread the word, too, and soon if anybody hears Pig they'll just think it's you." "Yes!" droned J.Lo, throwing his hand up. "A foolproof plan! Thank Mother Ocean that you do not use your genius for evil." | Adam Rex | ||
| 0c2d751 | The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks. | Adam Rex | ||
| e443e5e | The fog was mysterious. The lights were mysterious. The music was "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"." -- | Adam Rex | ||
| feebb24 | Look," I said halfheartedly. "Another one of those tumbleweeds made out of old hair weaves." "Tumbleweave," said J.Lo." | Adam Rex | ||
| 0ccd0db | It is colder now, There are many stars, We are drifting North by the Great Bear, The leaves are falling, The water is stone in the scooped rocks, To southward Red sun grey air: The crows are Slow on their crooked wings, The jays have left us: Long since we passed the flares of Orion. Each man believes in his heart he will die. Many have written last thoughts and last letters. None know if our deaths are now or forever: None know if this wan.. | poetry | Archibald MacLeish | |
| 20bba6d | Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 1b22920 | For a brazen Libertine, an adulterer, a sodomite, an atheist, a fornicator, rakehell, heretic, godless playmaker and debaucher of innocents, you're a sorry state of affairs. | kit-marlowe | Elizabeth Bear | |
| ea0a969 | That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| c985b34 | FAUSTUS: Bell, book and candle, candle, book and bell, Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 20dcc68 | All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command. Emperors and kings Are but obey'd in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind, or rend the clouds; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man! A sound magician is a mighty god. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 56a4740 | BALDOCK: To die, sweet Spenser, therefore live we all; Spenser, all live to die, and rise to fall. | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 914cf1d | KING EDWARD: But what is he whom rule and empery Have not in life or death made miserable? | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 9f7fe97 | I hold the Fates bound fast in iron chains, And with my hand turn Fortune's wheel about; | Christopher Marlowe | ||
| 910fd11 | He is not a punishing God, Lizzy. That is the mistake most people make, thinking He sits with an account book and a big fist, waiting to punish us. He is not a wrathful God but a loving God who made each of us and loved us since we were in our mother's womb | faith god love purpose | Ann Rinaldi | |
| 4db68a5 | I know now why God gave us babies. They require constant attention, of course. They make messes and disturb the peace, but their cuteness and smiles are something the only reminder of God we have in the house. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| a8f7d1a | This would be an outrageous cay man | Theodore Taylor | ||
| bbbaef4 | If you're afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past. | Ben Folds | ||
| 32ada4b | The only really interesting things about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart. | Polly Horvath | ||
| 9d896f9 | And, I often think, the truth isn't good or bad, it's just the truth. | Polly Horvath | ||
| f659925 | It's better to be fooled a hundred times than never to look. | Polly Horvath | ||
| 1fd069b | When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen. | Bette Greene | ||
| 7440ef7 | But don't go thinking that I'm critical of you, Anton, because really I'm not. Not a bit! It's just that you're not here. I'm alone and I'm frightened and you're not here. And you're not ever going to be here for me. | Bette Greene | ||
| 395b2c5 | That voice that talks badly to you is a demon voice. This very patient and determined demon shows up in your bedroom one day and refuses to leave. You are six or twelve or fifteen and you look in the mirror and you hear a voice so awful and mean that it takes your breath away. It tells you that you are fat and ugly and you don't deserve love. And the scary part is the demon is your own voice. But it doesn't sound like you. It sounds like a .. | Amy Poehler |