Zelda Fitzgerald’s birthday was yesterday. I’ve written about her previously and I think many Dear Readers know how I love her. I thought a selection of quotes would be nice and might give a little inspiration.
The night you gave me my birthday party… you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn’t I? And it was a radiant night, a night of soft conspiracy and the trees agreed that it was all going to be for the best.
She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
I don’t want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.
I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.
And my favorite. The quote that speaks so much of me.
I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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