Save Me the Waltz: A Novel
A source page for quotes linked to Zelda Fitzgerald.
“Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.”
“["The Sun Also Rises" is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t.”
“I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.”
“Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.”
“Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.”
“Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.”
“Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.”
“Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.”
“Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.”
“Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.”
“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.”
“Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world.”
“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
“I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.”
“I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.”
“I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.”
“isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?”
“Death is the only real elegance.”
“memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for”