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  • Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet. -- Ben Jonson
  • I'll think about that tomorrow. Scarlett O'Hara -- Margaret Mitchell
  • Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again. -- Toni Braxton
  • Night can't cloak your scarlet dream. Accept Desire's call. -- P. C. Cast
  • Scarlett Garcia fell at the feet of no gloriously delicious man! -- Lola Stark
  • But you're the only one, Scarlet. You'll always be the only one. -- Marissa Meyer
  • Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind. - Rhett Butler -- Margaret Mitchell
  • Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.Hair: brown. Lips: scarletAge: five thousand three hundred days. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • Scarlet was in pain all night because she wouldn't let me sleep with her. -- Chelsea Fine
  • And because Scarlet loved pancakes...That's what he would do. Make pancakes and flee. -- Chelsea Fine
  • You remembered, he said quietly.Lowering the bow, Scarlet kept her eyes on himI remembered. -- Chelsea Fine
  • Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted. -- Donna Mills
  • History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. -- Eldridge Cleaver
  • Scarlet gasped as Wolf buried one hand into her mess of curls and kissed her back. -- Marissa Meyer
  • But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out? -- Margaret Mitchell
  • -Debo comunicarle una cosa muy importante, monsieur, todos damos asco. Somos todos maravillosos, y todos damos asco. -- Alessandro Baricco
  • ...if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom... -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Could he possibly believe a purple tunic over a butler- yellow shirt and scarlet pants became him. -- Hilari Bell
  • Exiled spirits, redas the spotless toe of a seraph spreadwith scarlet by the shame of rumpled dawns -- Stephane Mallarme
  • And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy. -- Daniel Radcliffe
  • A trained bus thrower like Gabriel, or Robin Hood wannabe like Scarlet, or a ninja assassin like Tristan -- Chelsea Fine
  • And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath? -- Alexandra Ripley
  • Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way -- Margaret Mitchell
  • I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara. -- Margaret Mitchell
  • Like an ocean on fire, the red-tiled rooftops of Rome spread out before him, glowing in the scarlet sunset. -- Dan Brown
  • When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. -- Hilaire Belloc
  • Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit! Sophie saidI refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it! -- Diana Wynne Jones
  • Why had Jesse asked Scarlett to sit next to him? And since when did guys go to the bathroom together? -- Lauren Conrad
  • You loved her. I would feel the same if someone wanted to erase Scarlet's identity and give it to Levana's army. -- Marissa Meyer
  • It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over.Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy -- Margaret Mitchell
  • Well I'm sixteen, close enough. Scarlett is eighteen, which makes Silas . . . wow. What does someone Silas's age want with a kid like me? -- Jackson Pearce
  • The queen's prized artic wolf. Once an alpha male. He turned to ScarletBut you need a pack to be an alpha, don't you? -- Marissa Meyer
  • Gabriel looked ou at the water for a momentLove is rare.Yes Scarlet looked at the lake as wellBut always worth pursuing.Gabriel noddedAlways. -- Chelsea Fine
  • This women's orchestra made a demure picture in their muted dove grays, alright, but they played like they were gowned in scarlet and gold. -- Bailey Bristol
  • Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies. -- Sharon Kay Penman
  • February-Scarlet words,Though noneThe Scarlet Letter,Entwine their way DeeperDeeperAround the fibersOf my soul.Fusing,Pulsing,Burgeoning,They absorb me,And their architect thereof. -- Larese Mendez
  • Need a ride?Of course we need a ride! Scarlett screamed at himAre you stupid?That would be nice, thank you, I said smoothly -- Sarah Dessen
  • I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for. -- Zadie Smith
  • ... the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began... -- John Geddes
  • This Jackson bloke was the ruddy Scarlet Pimpernel, here, there and everywhere, always one step ahead of Barry. And everywhere he went, women were disappearing. -- Kate Atkinson
  • If I'd played Mammy, I'd of told Scarlett to stick those green draperies up her white little pooper. Make her own damn man-catching dress. -Minny -- Kathryn Stockett
  • To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her. -- Margaret Mitchell
  • Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, The dogs bark but the caravan passes on? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan. -- Margaret Mitchell
  • Cinder made a special trip to Paris for this girl?My logic aptitude suggests this is a possibility.What else do we know about this ... Scarlet? -- Marissa Meyer
  • So che non dovresti voler avere niente a che fare con me. Non te ne faccio una colpa. Ma tu sei l'unica, Scarlet. Sarai sempre l'unica. -- Marissa Meyer
  • It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever. -- John Steinbeck
  • She saw the scarlet thread of her lips, the light in her eyes, the family through their love, their children running barefoot in a fresh field. -- David Paul Kirkpatrick
  • Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you. -Rhett Butler -- Margaret Mitchell
  • A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise! he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face. - Rhett Butler -- Margaret Mitchell
  • It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Remember, Elizabeth fell for Mr. Darcy, Beauty fell for the Beast and Scarlet fell for Rhett. Girls love a mysterious boy with a dark past. Trust me. -- Chelsea M. Cameron
  • He (the British soldier) is generally beloved by two sorts of Companion, in whores and lice, for both these Vermin are great admirers of a Scarlet Coat. -- Richard Holmes
  • His eyes tracked the scarlet trail to its beginning: the top of the stairs leading to the parking lot.My Livia will come to me on this path. -- Debra Anastasia
  • Scarlet and Wolf are saying gushy things in the galley, Iko saidNormally I like gushy things, but its different when its real people. I prefer the net dramas. -- Marissa Meyer
  • I'm baaaaaaaack! Heather rushed up to Scarlet, completely unaware of GabrielI came, I kissed, I conquered. No, let's go find you a hot guy with a tasty mouth. -- Chelsea Fine
  • Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemonsoff the tree! I don't wantto forget who I am, what has burned in me,and hang limp and clean, an empty dress - -- Denise Levertov
  • The whole weak in the knees thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett -- Maureen Johnson
  • Scarlett (O'Hara) taught that one could be hungry and despairing, but not broken and not without resources, spiritual in nature, that precluded one from surrendering without a fight -- Pat Conroy
  • Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe! -- Henry Rollins
  • The big bad monster wasn't green and hiding under the bed, it wore tasteless floral prints, bright scarlet lipstick and sat in the kitchen smoking and saying 'bollocks' alot. -- Jo Brand
  • I read 'Scarlett' recently, and that was a killer comic book. The 'Black Widow' was pretty rockin'. There is a big list of killer chicks that are just rockin'. -- Stana Katic
  • She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood. -- Tanith Lee
  • Scarlett permitted the embrace - because in the dark smoke- fill the kitchen, there had been born a greater respect for her sister in law, a closer feeling of comradeship. -- Margaret Mitchell
  • He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster. -- Margaret Mitchell
  • I'll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of someway to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day. - Scarlett -- Margaret Mitchell
  • So, tell me about yourself, Scarlet. Gabriel saidI already know about your love for coffee and sleeping in - which makes you awesome, by the way - but what else? -- Chelsea Fine
  • I love being as bad as possible! You've got to love a bad girl. Look at 'Gone With the Wind,' Scarlett O'Hara - total bad girl, but you love her. -- Katie McGrath
  • When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarletDon't you hate me? he demandedI'd hate me.You just tried to drown yourself, Ash saidYou seem to hate yourself plenty already. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Cogswhallop glanced skeptically at the complex runesAre you sure this'll work, gen'ral? Of course I'm sure- Ping. The silvery note echoed in the cramped room. Makenna felt her face turn scarlet. -- Hilari Bell
  • Scarlett Johansson. I think people don't really realize how great of an actress that girl is. She's so beautiful and that distracts you from what she can do as an actor. -- Demian Bichir
  • He was trying to gather up the scarlet threads of life and weave them into a pattern; to find his way through the sanguine labyrinth of passion through which he was wandering. -- Oscar Wilde
  • His nature had developed like a flower, had borne blossoms of scarlet flame. Out of its secret hiding-place had crept his Soul, and Desire had come to meet it on the way. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Truly, Autumn is my season, the scarlet beast chortedSpring and Summer and Winter all begin with such late letters! But Autumn and Fall, I have loved best, because they are best to love. -- Catherynne M. Valente
  • Amusement touched the corner of his lipsAnimals love me.Oh, I'm sure they do, Scarlet said, beaming with fake encouragement. She shut the door before muttering, What farm animals don't love a wolf? -- Marissa Meyer
  • He looked at her with his green don't-lie-to-me-woman eyes and Scarlet dropped her guilty gaze to the mahogany desktop, searching around until she found a paperweight shaped like a pyramid to stare at. -- Chelsea Fine
  • Scarlett, I'm a bad influence on you and if you have any sense you will send me packing - if you can. I'm very hard to get rid of. But I'm bad for you. -- Margaret Mitchell
  • Your extracurricular activities are definitely somewhat lackluster, Annie.What? Being the daughter of a celebrated criminal doesn't count as an extracurricular activity?No, Scarlet saidA case could be made for poisoning your ex-boyfriend however. -- Gabrielle Zevin
  • Against snow, a tall Beautiful Being. Whistlings of death and circles of muffled music make this adored body rise, swell and tremble like a ghost; scarlet and black wounds open in the magnificent flesh. -- Arthur Rimbaud
  • Patriotic'? Dear, dear me! Scarlett covered her mouth in mock astonishmentI didn't know that was 'patriotism.' I believe what you intended has ruder names, though no well-bred Georgia lady would admit to knowing them. -- Donald McCaig
  • There was a glow of grim pride in her usually gentle face, approbation and a fierce joy in her smile that equaled the fiery tumult in Scarlett's own bosom.'Why-why-she's like me! She understands how I feel'! -- Margaret Mitchell
  • The art teacher's scarlet book was called Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. 'As the title suggests,' Mr Dunwoody saw the book'd caught my attention, 'it's about the history of opticians. What are you about? -- David Mitchell
  • I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound. -- Robin Hobb
  • Power must be claimed. Wealth won. Rule, dominion, empire purchased with blood.You scarless children deserve nothing. You do not know pain. You do not know whatyour forefathers sacrificed to place you on these heights. But soon, you will. -- Pierce Brown
  • I'm done. I'm going to go to bed and read important books about theater.It would would be easier if you just said porn, Scarlett said.No idea what you're talking about. But knock first if you need me. -- Maureen Johnson
  • I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order. -- Mary Karr
  • Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floorA brief life seems pointless.Tristan thought for a momentIsn't that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift? -- Chelsea Fine
  • I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality. -- Pierre Loti
  • I don't think so, dude. Gabriel would kill me. And then Scarlet would kill me. And they could just keep on killing me over and over again because I don't ever die. Do you know how much that would suck? -- Chelsea Fine
  • What about you? Scarlet askedYou have to enjoy the fear, too. Just a little?Not the fear, Han saidI just like being a little smarter than the next guy.That's all it is?That, and I really hate paying taxes. -- James S.A. Corey
  • But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me. -- Marissa Meyer
  • Ellen could have killed me, Jack said quietly, but she didn't. She saved my life.How come? Fitch demandedAfter all this?Ellen turned scarlet and stared at the groundMaybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before, she mumbled. -- Cinda Williams Chima
  • A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust. -- George R. R. Martin
  • So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.I hope not. It's a girl. -- Margaret Mitchell
  • So...this is the dark dungeon where the very angry Tristan sleeps?No. This is the dark dungeon where the very dangerous Tristan keeps himself away from the very carless young woman.Clearly, he was in no mood for small talk. -- Chelsea Fine
  • You've never told me about your love life, Scarlett. You're a very pretty girl. You must have a boy shacked up somewhere for your personal delights. I'd bet it's a booky one, overtones of Harry Potter and a lot of black T-shirts. -- Maureen Johnson
  • A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
  • A red ganglion, no bigger than a scarlet thread, snapped and quivered; a nerve, no greater than a red linen fiber twisted. Deep in her one little mech was gone and the entire machine, imbalanced, was about to steadily shake itself to bits. -- Ray Bradbury
  • Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent meYou lost this, he said.I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behindI'm shedding. -- Gabrielle Zevin
  • His thumb caressed the scarlet surface of her cheekFrom now on, Hannah, no matter what you say or do, I'm going to look at your mouth and remember how sweet you taste. A self-mocking smile curved his lips as he added quietly, Damn it. -- Lisa Kleypas
  • He picked her up. Picked her up and carried her, as if she were Scarlett O'Hara and he were Rhett Butler, if Rhett had been the kind of guy to go down on Scarlett in a doorway. Which, let's be honest, he probably was. -- Ruthie Knox
  • The faint of lemon verbena surrounded her, floating gently from Eleanor Butler's silk gown and silken hair. It was the fragrance that had always been part of Ellen O'Hara, the scent for Scarlett of comfort, of safety, of love, of life before the War -- Alexandra Ripley
  • Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob. -- Aldous Huxley
  • I want a sword to slit her end to end and then, with one hundred more cuts, dice her body into small pieces and leave the bloodied,quivering remains of skin, muscle, and soulless guts on her front lawn, arranged in a gruesome scarlet letter. -- Julie Metz
  • Scarlett, when you are forty-five, perhaps you will know what I'm talking about and then perhaps you, too, will be tired of imitation gentry and shoddy manners and cheap emotions. But I doubt it. I think you'll always be more attracted by glister than by gold. -- Margaret Mitchell
  • I He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed. He walked amongst the Trial -- Oscar Wilde
  • It'll be George Michael all over again, Dad mutters darkly to Mum, and I give a sharp intake of breath. That is AGAINST our family code. No one was supposed to mention George Michael ever again. We even turn off Carless Whisper whenever it comes on. -- Sophie Kinsella
  • His dark hair was still wet and fell around his head in a tousled way that was too sexy for his own good.Scarlet wanted to run her hands through it - but oh wait. That could kill him.Definitely too sexy for his own good. -- Chelsea Fine
  • So why don't you tell him you're sorry? Gaby suggestedUh... because he probably never wants to speak to me again?How do you know? Do you have a fifth sense too?Scarlett sighedNo. And I think that's sixth sense.No, I don't see dead people. It's different. -- Lauren Conrad
  • Pride & honor & truth & virtue & kindliness, he enumerated silkilyYou are right, Scarlett. They aren't important when a boat is sinking. But look around you at your friends. Either they are bringing their boats ashore safely with cargoes intact or they are content to go down with all flags flying. -- Margaret Mitchell
  • There are a ton of A-list stars I'd love to dress - fashionistas like Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson. Also, Cate Blanchett would be fun and fabulous. My picks vary by the day and how I'm feeling. But, as a new, young designer, I'm open to working with everyone! -- Christian Siriano
  • Why are the cute ones always such sociopaths?Win doesn't seem like so much of a sociopath, I replied without thinking.Oh, really? So, you think he's cute, do you? At least you're admitting it now.I shook my head. Scarlet was incorrigible.Admitting it is the first step, Annie. -- Gabrielle Zevin
  • It's a shadowy world, skies are slippery grey. A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet. He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat, take the motherless children off the street and place them at the feet of a harlot. -- Bob Dylan
  • She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occasionally she left an imperative written in lipstick on my dusty windowpane. BE AMOROUS! she exhorted one night and, another night, BE MYSTERIOUS! Some nights later, she scribbled: WHEN YOU BEGIN TO THINK, YOU LOSE THE POINT. -- Angela Carter
  • Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery. -- Margaret Mitchell
  • She had worn a sequined, strapless wedding gown, and left her bridesmaid to wear brightly flowered dresses to fit for a kind of pornographic milkmaid: low-cut and laced up the midriff with a sort of shoelaceWhat Scarlet O'Hara might have done with a shower curtain, if she were trying to snag a plumber. -- Lorrie Moore
  • Scarlet shut the door behind her, leaning against it as she respondedI came because you have been in great pain.Yes. And because of my great pain you still live. It seems my isolation is good for your wellbeing.The strength of my pulse has little to do with the health of my heart. -- Chelsea Fine
  • Oh. Momma told me not to tell you that your bed squeaks. But I think you know, 'cause I could hear it this morning. Jake dropped his fork. Tor, for the first time Jake had ever seen, turned scarlet. Maureen looked at them both and sighed. Christmas is always so interesting with you, Mark. -- Chris Owen
  • A sickening howl stopped her, sucking the air out of her lungs. The night's chatter silenced, even the loitering city rats pausing to listen.Scarlet had heard wild wolves before, prowling the countryside in search of easy prey on the farms.But never had a wolf's howl send a chill down her spine like that. -- Marissa Meyer
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