If you haven't done anything wrong, it's because you haven't had the opportunity.

Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

“Scarlett, you do like me, don’t you?”
“Well, sometimes,” she answered cautiously.“When you aren’t acting like a varmint.”
“I think you like me because I am a varmint."

It was so good to have a man beside her, to lean close to him and feel the hard swell of his arm and know that he stood between her and unnamable terrors, even though he merely sat there and stared.

You think that by saying, 'I'm sorry,' all the errors and hurts of years past can be remedied, obliterated from the mind, all the poison drawn from old wounds...

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more--and by remembering too much.

And apologies, once postponed, became harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

Hardships make or break people.

No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

... desire and attainment were two different matters.

Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

... he's nervous and timid and well meaning, and I don't know of any more damning qualities a man can have.

Only when like marries like can there be any happiness.

I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back... This is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heartbreak, this discontent.

Oh, nameless things. Things which sound very silly when they are put into words.