Quotes
List here any quote, from Margaret Mitchell's book Gone With the Wind. Quotes that inspire you, or give you a strong visual image, or maybe you just admire the author's use of words
..... poetic, lyrical, straightforward, cultural, etc ...
They looked out across the endless acres of Gerald O’Hara’s newly plowed cotton fields toward the red horizon. Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind the hills across the Flint River, the warmth of the April day was ebbing into a faint but chill.
ReplyDeleteShe had wanted him, in that first instant, wanted him as simply and unreasoningly as she wanted food to eat, horses to ride, and a soft bed on which to lay herself.
ReplyDeleteShe lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so pleasant that defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear complexion are weapons to vanquish fate.
ReplyDelete"Curb them but don't break their spirits."
ReplyDelete"You fire-eating young bucks, listen to me. You don't want to fight. I fought and I know. Went out in the Seminole War and was a big enough fool to go to the Mexican War, too. You all don't know what war is. You think its riding a pretty horse and having the girls throw flowers at you and coming home a hero. Well it ain't. No sir! It's going hungry, and getting the measles and pneumonia from sleeping in the wet. And if it ain't measles and pneumonia, it's your bowels. Yes sir, what war does to a man's bowels - dysentery and things like that - "
ReplyDeleteEavesdroppers often hear highly instructive things.
ReplyDeleteTheir leisured world had been turned topsy-turvy, and their pleadings, prayers and advice availed nothing against the powerful forces sweeping them along.
ReplyDeleteThe live oaks with their waving curtains of gray moss gave Scalett the creeps and always brought to her mind Gerald's stories of Irish ghosts roaming in shimmering gray mists.
ReplyDelete"To die for one's country is to live forever."
ReplyDeleteSugar always caught more flies than vinegar, as Mammy often said, and she was going to catch and subdue this fly, so he could never again have her at his mercy.
ReplyDelete