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“And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“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.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“Now she could look back down the long years and see herself in green flowered dimity, standing in the sunshine at Tara, thrilled by the young horseman with his blond hair shining like a silver helmet. She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers. And so he, too, would have become cheap if, in those first far-away days, she had ever had the satisfaction of refusing to marry him. If she had ever had him at her mercy, seen him grown passionate, importunate, jealous, sulky, pleading, like the other boys, the wild infatuation which had possessed her would have passed, blowing away as lightly as mist before sunshine and light wind when she met a new man.”
― Gone With the Wind
― Gone With the Wind
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