Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn’t quite because we were too smart for them!
ZELDA FITZGERALDShe quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Without you, dearest dearest I couldn’t see or hear or feel or think – or live – I love you so and I’m never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.
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It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
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We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.
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Don’t you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered – and I was delivered to you – to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.
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One illusion is as good as another.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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Oh, the secret life of man and woman–dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.
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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
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