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.Collection: Future
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.Collection: Dreams
Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.Collection: Home
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.Collection: Love
I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.Collection: Real
Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.Collection: Experience
She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.Collection: Doubt
The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into the battle. She flirted because it was fun to flirt and wore a one-piece bathing suit because she had a good figure she was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. Mothers disapproved of their sons taking the Flapper to dances, to teas, to swim and most of all to heart.Collection: Mother
Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.Collection: Thinking
Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.Collection: Moon
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 myselfCollection: Want
I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the delicious damp grass that grows near old walls and that your hands are beautiful opening out of your sleeves and that the back of your head is a mossy sheltered cave when there is trouble in the wind and that my cheek just fits the depression in your shoulder.Collection: Beautiful
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.Collection: Boredom
Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.Collection: Needs
I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.Collection: Love You
Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.Collection: Ideas
One illusion is as good as another.Collection: Illusion
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.Collection: Dream
I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.Collection: Imagination
isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?Collection: People
The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.Collection: Spiritual
Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.Collection: Action
Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?Collection: Years
I'm just not the same. Half of me is out there looking for you and the other half is wishing i didn't have to." I don't want to live - I want to love first, And live incidentally. Don't-don't ever think of the things you can't give me-You've trusted me with the dearest heart of all-and it's so damn much more than anybody else in all the world has ever had.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Love
Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.Collection: Emotional
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.Collection: Spiritual
Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.Collection: Love Is
Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.Collection: Comfort
And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.Collection: Courage
I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.Collection: Weather
We walked at night towards a cafe blooming with Japanese lanterns and I followed your white shoes gleaming like radium in the damp darkness. Rising off the water, lights flickered an invitation far enough away to be interpreted as we liked; to shimmer glamourously behind the silhouette of retrospective good times when we still believed in summer hotels and the philosophies of popular songs.Collection: Summer
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.Collection: Beautiful
Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.Collection: Love Is
I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.Collection: Light
The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.Collection: Underwear
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.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Sweet
It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Love
Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.Collection: Thinking
I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.Collection: Salamanders
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.Collection: Understanding
Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.Collection: People
Father said conflict develops the characterCollection: Father
Oh, 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!Collection: Smart
Death is the only real elegance.Collection: Real