Zelda Fitzgerald

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

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”

“I am not a bit cynical, only incredibly sad.”

“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.”

“I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist.”

“It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.”

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

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”

“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.”

“It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.”

“I like to play. I'm a child. I'm a spoiled child.”

“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.”

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