It Was Better To Know The Worst

. . . She Knew Only That If She Did Or Said Thus-and-so, Men Would Unerringly Respond With The Complimentary Thus-and-so. It Was Like A Mathematical Formula And No More Difficult, For Mathematics Was The One Subject That Had Come Easy To Scarlett In Her Schooldays.

The Way To Get A Man Interested And To Hold His Interest Was To Talk About Himself, And Then Gradually Lead The Conversation Around Yourself—and Keep It There.

I Was Never One To Patiently Pick Up Broken Fragments And Glue Them Together Again And Tell Myself That The Mended Whole Was As Good As New. What Is 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 Lived.

If He's Forgotten Me, I'll Make Him Remember Me. I'll Make Him Want Me Again.

Death, Taxes And Childbirth! There's Never Any Convenient Time For Any Of Them.