Quotes from Alexandra Ripley

You don't have to do anything, you only have to be what you are.

She'd done harder things in her life, she could do this. She had to.

Why?" Rhett's mouth twisted in a smile. "Because she was so full of fire and so recklessly, stubbornly brave. Because she was such a child beneath all her pretenses. Because she was unlike any woman I had ever known. She fascinated me, infuriated me, drove me mad. I loved her as consumingly as she loved him. From the day I first laid eyes on her. It was a kind of disease.

I won't think about it now, there's nothing I can do about any of those things.

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.