Zelda Fitzgerald quotes

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. (Zelda Fitzgerald)
I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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
We 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 Fitzgerald
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.
Zelda Fitzgerald
I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
Zelda Fitzgerald
isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?
Zelda Fitzgerald
Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world?
Zelda Fitzgerald
Death is the only real elegance. (Zelda Fitzgerald)
Nothing could have survived our life.
Zelda Fitzgerald
She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that's one of the reasons why they did.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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.
Zelda Fitzgerald
I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
Zelda Fitzgerald
There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.
Zelda Fitzgerald
I love you, even if there isn't any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
Zelda Fitzgerald
I play the radio and moon about... and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.
Zelda Fitzgerald
memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for. (Zelda Fitzgerald)
Father said conflict develops the character.
Zelda Fitzgerald
My dear, I think of you always and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your sweetness till morning.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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
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 like a protestation against a first waft of ether.
Zelda Fitzgerald