The Romantic Egoists

"Do you think the solitude in which I live has a more amusing decor than any other solitude? Do you think it is any nicer for remembering that there were times very late at night when you and I shared our aloneness?"  - Scott to Zelda, 1930


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"I don’t see how you can carry around as much love as I have given you."  - Zelda to Scott, 1919


"I can’t think of anything but nights with you. I want them warm and silvery, when we can be together all our lives."  - Zelda to Scott, 1919


"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."  - Zelda Fitzgerald


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"There’s nothing in all the world I want but you."  -

Zelda to Scott, 1919


"This has been the longest time in my life. I will never be so foolish as to think I can get on without you again."  - Zelda to Scott, 1931


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"Life is just the essence of zero without you and it somehow seems a very distant affair."  - Zelda to Scott, 1931


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When asked to describe his wife, Scott said, ‘She’s the most charming person in the world.’ Pressed for details, he added fervently, ‘That’s all. I refuse to amplify- excepting she’s perfect.’‘You don’t think that,’ Zelda put in. ‘You think I’m a lazy woman.’‘No,’ said Scott. ‘I like it. I think you’re perfect. You’re always ready to listen to my manuscripts at any hour of day or night. You’re charming- beautiful. I believe you clean the ice-box once a week.’

When asked to describe his wife, Scott said, ‘She’s the most charming person in the world.’ Pressed for details, he added fervently, ‘That’s all. I refuse to amplify- excepting she’s perfect.’
‘You don’t think that,’ Zelda put in. ‘You think I’m a lazy woman.’
‘No,’ said Scott. ‘I like it. I think you’re perfect. You’re always ready to listen to my manuscripts at any hour of day or night. You’re charming- beautiful. I believe you clean the ice-box once a week.’


"You are all I care about on earth: the past discredited and disowned, the future has doubled up on the present; give me the peace of my one certitude- that I love you."  - Zelda to Scott, 1931


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"I don’t want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally."  - Zelda to Scott, 1919