135 Quotes by Zelda Fitzgerald

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.

I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

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.

Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

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

Maybe I’m getting tired – I can’t think of anything but nights with you. I want them warm and silvery.

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.

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!