Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Therese Anne Fowler
Top 10 Best Quotes
“If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised.”
“Won’t we be quite the pair?—you with your bad heart, me with my bad head. Together, though, we might have something worthwhile.”
“Marry me, Zelda. We'll make it all up as we go. What do you say?”
“There's nothing like losing yourself in someone else's troubles to make you forget your own.”
“If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form, the ice will melt; the water will flow and blend into the river's brackish mouth, then join the ocean between Lewes and Cape May, endlessly, forever, amen.”
“... while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I respected and admired. Surrounded as I was by ambitious, accomplished women, I couldn't ignore the little voice in my head that said maybe I was supposed to shed halfway, and do something significant. Contribute something. Accomplish something. Choose. Be.”
“Adventure:' there's a word that worked on us both like a charm.”
“He smiled then, and I felt that smile like a vibration moving through me, the way you might feel if you walked through a ghost or it walked through you.”
“Nothing except luck protects you from catastrophe. Not love. Not money. Not faith. Not a pure heart or good deeds--and not bad ones either, for that matter. We can, any of us, be laid low, cut down, diminished, destroyed.”
“There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too.”
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Book Keywords:
adventure, rivers, soul, patience, ambition, zelda-fitzgerald
