Цитаты из книги Jih proti Severu

Какое-то удивительное чувство легкости и свободы овладело Скарлетт теперь, когда она закрыла свое сердце всему, что привязывало ее к тем былым дня и к той было Скарлетт.

«Я подумаю об этом завтра, когда мне станет легче, когда я смогу это выдержать».

...он сказал, что предпочитает получить пулю в лоб, чем дуру в жёны."

«Бог меня простит, – промелькнуло у нее в голове, – за то, что я бью это измученное животное. А не простит, что поделаешь».

... война - это не триумфальное шествие, а страдание и грязь!

Как можно знать, на что способен человек, если он не джентльмен?

Для нее плотская любовь была просто уступкой непонятной одержимости мужчин, которую женщина не в состоянии разделить, — чем-то постыдным и мучительным, неизбежно ведущим к еще более мучительному: к родам

Тщеславие подхлестнуло желание поверить в то, во что так хотелось верить, желание поверить превратилось в уверенность.

Ей хотелось молиться, но она не решалась поднять глаза к небесам. Ей хотелось плакать, но глаза её были сухи. Слезы жгли ей грудь, душили ее, но не могли пролиться.

He cleared his throat three times to speak and failed each time. He dropped his eyes because her own green eyes met his so piercingly, almost as if she were not seeing him

She looked so strangely, and there was a wild beauty about her white face that set his heart leaping

Her face was paper white and her narrow eyes blazing like emeralds. He had never seen such fire in any girl's face, such a glow in anyone's eyes

Suddenly she found her tongue and just as suddenly all the years of Ellen's teachings fell away, and the forthright Irish blood of Geral spoke from his daughter's lips

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about him, and then gradually lead the conversation around to yourself-and keep it there

He had been watching her and when she looked at him he laughed outright. Scarlett had an uneasy feeling that this man who was not received was the only one present who knew what lay behind her gaiety and that it was affording him sardonic amusement. She could have clawed him with pleasure too.

Like most girls, her imagination carried her as far as the altar and no further

But somehow, unbidden, she had a feeling of respect for Rhett Butler for refusing to marry a girl who was a fool

Then her courage flowed strongly back and the sun came out again and the landscape glowed anew

"Curb them but don't break their spirits", was Mrs. Tarleton's motto

There was no one to tell Scarlett that her own personality, frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractive than any masquerade she might adopt. Had she been told, she would have been pleased but unbelieving. And the civilization of which she was a part would have been unbelieving too, for at no time, before or since, had so low a premium been placed on feminine naturalness