1. “Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let’s think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
2. “There’s nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
3. “I’m so damn glad I love you – I wouldn’t love any other man on earth – I b’lieve if I had deliberately decided on a sweetheart, he’d have been you.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
4. “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.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
5. “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.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
6. “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
7. “One illusion is as good as another.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
8. “Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
9. “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.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
10. “It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
11. “The trouble with emergencies is,” she said, “that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
12. “We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
13. “Since we first met I have loved you with whatever I had to love you with.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
14. “memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for” – Zelda Fitzgerald
15. “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
16. “Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
17. “without you, dearest dearest I couldn’t see or hear or feel or think – or live – I love you so and I’m never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
18. “The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
19. “I love you anyway-even if there isn’t any me or any love or even any life- – Zelda Fitzgerald
20. “Youth doesn’t need friends – it only needs crowds.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
21. “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
22. “Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
23. “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!” – Zelda Fitzgerald
24. “I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
25. “Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
26. “Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
27. “Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
28. “We couldn’t go on indefinitely being swept off our feet.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
29. “We get something to do and as soon as we’ve got it, it gets us.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
30. “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
31. “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?” – Zelda Fitzgerald
32. “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.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
33. “Those men think I’m purely decorative, and they’re fools for not knowing better.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
34. “I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
35. “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
36. “I don’t want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
37. “Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
38. “Isn’t it funny how danger makes people passionate?” – Zelda Fitzgerald
39. “Maybe I’m getting tired – I can’t think of anything but nights with you. I want them warm and silvery.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
40. “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
41. “Excuse me for being so intellectual. I know you would prefer something nice and feminine and affectionate.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
42. “Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
43. “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.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
44. “Nothing could have survived our life.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
45. “It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
46. “She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
47. “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
48. “Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
49. “She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
50. “I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
51. “Something may be a sort of fulfillment of yourself, and it may not be great to other people, but it is just as essential to yourself as if it is a great masterpiece.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
52. “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
53. “Thanks again for saving me. Someday, I’ll save you too.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
54. “We will have each other and we can be safe and warm.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
55. “I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
56. “I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
57. “Death is the only real elegance.” – Zelda Fitzgerald