“Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.”

“Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.”

“Don't be a goose!”

“My dear, I don't give a damn.”

“I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.”

“I feel sorry for her, but I don't like people I've got to feel sorry for.”

“And don't think you can lay down the load, ever. Because you can't. I know.”