Frases de Margaret Mitchell

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“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.”

Margaret Mitchell

“Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.”

Margaret Mitchell

“All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.”

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“I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.”

Margaret Mitchell

“I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“What’s 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 live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.”

“I hope not. It’s a girl.”

Margaret Mitchell

“I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.'
'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a handkerchief.”

Margaret Mitchell

“Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“I was right when I said 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.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain”

Margaret Mitchell

“Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó

“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.”

Margaret Mitchell libro Lo que el viento se llevó