Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies & turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom nothing was left from the wreckage except the indestructible red earth on which she stood. Margaret Mitchell
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  3. Sometimes sharing isn’t caring - Sonya Watson

  4. Life rarely follows a straight line. Success is a process of trying, reacting, and changing. - Ron Lizzi

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More Quotes By Margaret Mitchell
  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

  4. After all, tomorrow is another day!

  5. Hardships make or break people.

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