Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes

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.

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.

We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.

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.

Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City.

I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.

Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.

Nobody has ever measured even poets how much a heart can hold.

I don't want to live-I want to love first and live incidentally.

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

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.

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

David, I’ll fly for you, if you’ll love me!”“Fly, then.”“I can’t fly, but love me anyway.”“Poor wingless child!”“Is it so hard to love me?”“Do you think you are easy, my illusive possession?

. . . 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.

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

I don’t want to live— 
I want to love first, and live…incidentally.