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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.

Zelda Fitzgerald

I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Bone Light Ray Remember Shadow Yourself
I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Kind People Share Taste Weather
I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Believe Myself Worth
Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood – or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Achievement Experience Repeat Understand
I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Death Hope Money Myself Reading Sleep Youth
And only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Courage Feeling Lose Power Right Weakness World
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Behavior Herself Refusal
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Better Dreams Estate Feeling Life Secret Woman
I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Be Yourself Imagination Myself Quality Wonderful
It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Eat Habit Hold Live Sleep Terrible
I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

I Love You Life Myself Yourself
Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Errors Heaven Life Listing Mathematics Spring Summer
People are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Finding Information People Reading Trouble
Death is the only real elegance.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Death Elegant One Liner Reality
Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Age People Sexual Significant
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Charm Deliver Feeling Myself Thinking Yourself
Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Doctor Innocent Order Pronunciation Sound
Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Experience Teaching Yourself
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Belief Faith Greatness Happiness Simplicity Spiritual Travel
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Existence Science Space
I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Live Love Myself Willing
Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Action Analyze Annoy Explanation Myself
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Achievement Death Determination Direction Future Person Time
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Feeling Happiness Myself Responsible Way Young
Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Borrow Future Life Work Worry
I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Distance Formulate Listening Myself Sleep Sun World
We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
ZELDA FITZGERALD

Catch Deep Material Ourselves

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