"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
- Zelda Fitzgerald
"I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you."
"I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally."
"And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose."
". . . she tried to weave the strength of her father and the young beauty of her first love with David, the happy oblivion of her teens and her warm protected childhood into a magic cloak."
"I don’t want to live— I want to love first, and live…incidentally."
"David, I’ll fly for you, if you’ll love me!”“Fly, then.”“I can’t fly, but love me anyway.”“Poor wingless child!”“Is it so hard to love me?”“Do you think you are easy, my illusive possession?"
"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 ..."
"They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going."
"Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am read..."