Vanity Was Stronger Than Love At Sixteen

[t]he Merciful Adjustment Which Nature Makes When What Cannot Be Cured Must Be Endured.

You Are A Child If You Thought I Didn’t Know, For All Your Smothering Yourself Under That Hot Lap Robe. Of Course, I Knew. Why Else Do You Think I’ve Been—” He Stopped Suddenly And A Silence Fell Between Them. He Picked Up The Reins And Clucked To The Horse.

Southerners Can Never Resist A Losing Cause.

Anyone As Selfish And Determined As You Are Is Never Helpless.

. . . 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.