Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.


Gone With The Wind: American Literature (ed. 2016)

Margaret Mitchell Quotes

Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came...

Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came...

Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came...

Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came...