“I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.”

“She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers. ”

“I wonder if they know they are fighting for a cause that was lost the minute the first shot as fired.”

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

“Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.”

“His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.”

“In a weak moment, I have written a book.”