Цитаты из книги Juh proti Severu

Женщины Юга понимали, что тот край, где мужчины довольны жизнью, привыкли не встречать возражений и могут преспокойно тешить свое тщеславие, имеет все основания стать для женщин весьма приятным местом обитания. И от колыбели до могилы женщины прилагали все усилия к тому, чтобы мужчины были довольны собой, а довольные собой мужчины щедро вознаграждали за это женщин своим поклонением и галантностью.

But I do grudge him your heart and your dear, hard, unscrupulous, stubborn mind.

It never pays to underestimate your opponent’s strength and intelligence.

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.

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

To Scarlett, he was still an enigma but an enigma about which she no longer bothered her head. She was convinced that nothing ever pleased him or ever would please him, that he either wanted something badly and didn’t have it, or never had wanted anything and so didn’t care about anything.

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

In fact, in those two weeks in New Orleans, she learned everything about him except what he really was.

The strong were made to bully and the weak to knuckle under.

They don’t deserve to survive because they won’t fight - don’t know how to fight.

"My pet, I’ve been to the devil and he’s a very dull fellow. I won’t go there again, even for you… "

She felt puzzled and a little ashamed, as always when people attributed to her emotions and motives they possessed and thought she shared.

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.

Will was talking common sense instead of a lot of tootle about reunions in another and better world and submitting her will to God's. And Scarlett had always found strenght and comfort in common sense.

Hardships make or break people

You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless

- Scarlett, you do like me, don't you& - Well, sometimes. When you aren't acting like a varmint. - I think you like me because I am a varmint. You've known so few dyed-in-the-wool varmints in your sheltered life that my very difference holds a quaint charm for you.

The conversation was not going the way she wanted it. It never did when she was with him.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

Never pass up new experiences Scarlett. They enrich the mind.