fuck yeah, literary quotes
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gone with the wind
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
I loved something I made up, something that’s just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn’t see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.
I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.
Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.
I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.
Frankly, I don’t give a damn.
…he had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O’Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother’s velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.
I want the old days back again and they’ll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.
