6 Quotes by Judith Mackrell

And when the mood took her to fall for the handsome young lawyer Will Bankhead, she happily threw over the man to whom she was already engaged.

She did as she pleased, regarding life as 'an inexhaustible counter', from which she seemed to be continually picking out presents for herself.

Scott had learned much about girls when he was courting Zelda: the paradoxical mix of dependency and disdain she felt for her own beauty, the small tragedies and triumphs of her teenage life. In transferring these nuances to Rosalind, he became one of the first writers in post-war America to evoke a complex, modern heroine.

Right away I fell in love with him because he was so good looking. And because he was alone with ten women around him

You could make people love you, she discovered, by keeping them entertained.

She did as she pleased, regarding life as ‘an inexhaustible counter’, from which she seemed to be continually picking out presents for herself.