She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
ZELDA FITZGERALDDon’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.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
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I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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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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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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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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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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There’s nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.
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Father said conflict develops the character
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Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.
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And only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.
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They hadn’t much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.
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