#scarlet

I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes-and not him at all. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#love

But you're the only one, Scarlet. You'll always be the only one. ↗

— Marissa Meyer

#lunar-chronicles #scarlet #wolf #love

Scarlett, always save something to fear-even as you save something to love. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#rhett-butler #scarlett #love

And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true. ↗

— Tori Amos

#scarlet-s-walk #love

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. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#money

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#heart

They seek him here, they seek him there Those Frenchies seek him everywhere Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That demned elusive Pimpernel ↗

— Emmuska Orczy

#scarlet-pimpernel #heaven

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#scarlett #unrequited-love #love

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#around #board #came #england #escape

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#books #dead #his #hope #i