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."

"The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right."

"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."

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

"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 told herself, would move brightly along high places and stop to trespass and admire, and if the fine was a heavy one—well, there was no good in saving up beforehand to pay it. Full of these presumptuous resolves, she promised herself that if, in the future, her soul should come starving and crying for bread it should eat the stone she might have to offer without complaint or remorse. Relentlessly she convinced herself that the only thing of any significance was to take what she wanted when she could. She did her best."

"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"

"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 ready to continue."

"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 shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning."

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

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

"I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you."

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