Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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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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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Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.
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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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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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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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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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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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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
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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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I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
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Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
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Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
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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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD