Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWhy is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.
ZELDA FITZGERALDLove is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWe get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI 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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDI suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
ZELDA FITZGERALDIsn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?
ZELDA FITZGERALDThey 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 FITZGERALDI don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
ZELDA FITZGERALDMemories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.
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.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWe grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
ZELDA FITZGERALDOne illusion is as good as another.
ZELDA FITZGERALDOh, 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 FITZGERALDPeople are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
ZELDA FITZGERALDAnything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
ZELDA FITZGERALDWomen sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.
ZELDA FITZGERALD