Quotes by Zelda Fitzgerald

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”

“I love you, even if there isnt any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.”

“I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.”

“. . . she tried to weave the strength of her father and the young beauty of her first love with David, the happy oblivion of her teens and her warm protected childhood into a magic cloak.”

“And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.”

“If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form, the ice will melt; the ...”

“In the deep, wet tangled, wild jungle where even natives won't go is a mystical, dangerous river. The river's got no name because naming it would make it real, and no one wanted to believe that riv...”

“I dont want to liveI want to love first, and liveincidentally.”

“David, Ill fly for you, if youll love me!Fly, then.I cant fly, but love me anyway.Poor wingless child!Is it so hard to love me?Do you think you are easy, my illusive possession?”

“Scott is gone.I've had two days with this truth. This truth and me, we're acquainted now, past the shock of our first unhappy meeting and into the uneasy-cohabitation stage. Its barbs are slightly ...”

“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.”

“I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shad...”

“With adolescent Nietzscheanism, she already planned to escape on the world's reversals from the sense of suffocation that seemed to her to be eclipsing her family, her sisters, and mother. She, she...”

“Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled the past, and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am rea...”

“Marry me, Zelda. We'll make it all up as we go. What do you say?”

“It was good to be a stranger in a land when you felt aggressive and acquisitive, but when you began to weave your horizons into some kind of shelter it was good to know that hands you loved had hel...”

“Every sort of trouble I can think of, we've tried it out- become expert at some of it, even, so much so that I've come to wonder whether artists in particularity seek out hard times the way flowers...”

“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”

“She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.”

“A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is l...”