Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

#imagination #marriage #wedding #imagination

Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#inspirational

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#life

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#battlefield #be brave #brave #champagne #cowards

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

— Margaret Mitchell

#rhett-butler #life

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#rhett-butler-to-scarlett #southerners #yankees #humor

Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#beauty

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#gone-with-the-wind #death

These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#friendship #friendship

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#life-and-living #pain #problems #scarlett-o-hara #life