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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDLook closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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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 play the radio and moon about…and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
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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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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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People are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
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Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
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Nothing could have survived our life.
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.
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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!
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