“ Darling-- I love these velvet nights. I've never been able to decide whether the night was a bitter enemie or a grand patron --or whether I love you most in the eternal classic half-lights where it bl… Zelda Fitzgerald
“ It was not, Zelda wrote, prosperity or the softness of life, or any instability that marred the war generation; it was a great emotional disappointment resulting from the fact that life moved in poeti… Nancy Milford
“ Every sort of trouble I can think of, we've tried it out- become expert at some of it, even, so much so that I've come to wonder whether artists in particularity seek out hard times the way flowers tu… Therese Anne Fowler
“ Scott is gone.I've had two days with this truth. This truth and me, we're acquainted now, past the shock of our first unhappy meeting and into the uneasy-cohabitation stage. Its barbs are slightly dul… Therese Anne Fowler
“ In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself without a counterstrength and they were trapped, defaults, mutually committed, left holes everywhere in… Elizabeth Hardwick
“ They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction. Elizabeth Hardwick
