Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

"Hardships make or break people."

"Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them."

"I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."

"Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears."

"Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation."

"It was better to know the worst than to wonder."

"Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them."

"Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them."

"Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.”“Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness."

"Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear— even as you save something to love..."

"Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them."

"After all, tomorrow is another day!"