Hardships Make Or Break People.

Land Is The Only Thing In The World That Amounts To Anything, For 'tis The Only Thing In This World That Lasts, 'tis The Only Thing Worth Working For, Worth Fighting For - Worth Dying For.

A New Baby! Why, Scarlett, This Is A Surprise!” He Laughed, Leaning Down To Push The Blanket Away From Ella Lorena's Small Ugly Face." - Rhett Butler

No Matter What Rallying Cries The Orators Give To The Idiots Who Fight, No Matter What Noble Purposes They Assign To Wars, There Is Never But One Reason For A War. And That Is Money. All Wars Are In Reality Money Squabbles.

If Gone With The Wind Has A Theme It Is That Of Survival. What Makes Some People Come Through Catastrophes And Others, Apparently Just As Able, Strong, And Brave, Go Under? It Happens In Every Upheaval. Some People Survive; Others Don't. What Qualities Are In Those Who Fight Their Way Through Triumphantly That Are Lacking In Those That Go Under? I Only Know That Survivors Used To Call That Quality 'gumption.' So I Wrote About People Who Had Gumption And People Who Didn't.

Ser Eyes Met His, Hers Naked With Pleading, His Remote As Mountain Lakes Under Gray Skies. She Saw In Them Defeat Of Her Wild Dream, Her Mad Desires.