Margaret Mitchell - Tara Quotes

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I'll think of it all tomorrow at Tara.… After all, tomorrow is another day.

Margaret Mitchell

Tara had risen to riches on cotton, even as the whole South had risen, and Scarlett was Southerner enough to believe that both Tara and the South would rise again out of the red fields.

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Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles' sabre in her hand. Scarlett remembered that she had thought at the time: 'How silly! Melly couldn't even heft that sword!' But now she knew that had the necessity arisen, Melanie would have charged down those stairs and killed the Yankee - or been killed herself.

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She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.

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