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Save Me the Waltz QUOTES

Save Me the Waltz QUOTES

1 " 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? "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

2 " It was good to be a stranger in a land when you felt aggressive and acquisitive, but when you began to weave your horizons into some kind of shelter it was good to know that hands you loved had helped in their spinning - made you feel as if the threads would hold together better. "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

3 " She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant. "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

4 " A southern moon is a sodden moon, and sultry. When it swamps the fields and the rustling sandy roads and the sticky honeysuckle hedges in its sweet stagnation, your fight to hold on to reality is like a protestation against a first waft of ether. "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

5 " She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love. "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

6 " The macabre who lived through the war have a story they loved to tell about the soldiers of the Foreign Legion giving a ball in the expanses around Verdun and dancing with the corpses. Alabama's continued brewing of the poisoned filter for a semiconscious banquet table, her insistence on the magic and glamor of life when she was already feeling its pulse like the throbbing of an amputated leg, had something of the same sinister quality. "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

7 " We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet. "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

8 " Being close to him with her face in the space between his ear and his stiff army collar was like being initiated into the subterranean reserves of a fine fabric store exuding the delicacy of cambrics and linen and luxury bound in bales. "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

9 " isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate? "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

10 " The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens. "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

11 " There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention. "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

12 " memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

13 " Death is the only real elegance. "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

14 " Father said conflict develops the character "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

15 " People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble. "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

16 " But I warn you, I am only really myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination. "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

17 " Being in love, she concluded, is simply the presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone. Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure, she thought, another chance in life. "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

18 " Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

19 " Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them! "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz

20 " Everybody gives you belief for the asking,' she said to David, 'and so few people give you anything more to believe in than your own belief - just not letting you down, that's all. Its so hard to find a person who accepts responsibilities beyond what you ask.'
'So easy to be loved - so hard to love.' David answered "

― Zelda Fitzgerald , Save Me the Waltz