135 Quotes by Zelda Fitzgerald

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

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.

She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.

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.

I wish I had been what I thought I was; and so debonnaire; and so debonnaire.

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.

Since we first met I have loved you with whatever I had to love you with.

I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it - and it’s still I love you - love you - love you - my Sweetheart.