"The things that we have
done together and the awful splits that have broken us into war survivals in
the past stay like a sort of atmosphere around any house that I inhabit. The
good things and the first years together, and the good months that we had two
years ago in Montgomery will stay with me forever, and you should feel like I
do that they can be renewed, if not in a new spring, then in a new summer. I
love you, my darling."
Fitzgerald to Zelda
“Your photograph is all I have: it is with me
from the morning when I wake up with a frantic half dream about you to the last
moment when I think of you and of death at night.” Scott to Zelda, 1930
“I don’t suppose I really know you very well but I know you smell like the delicious damp
grass that grows near old walls and that your hands are beautiful opening out
of your sleeves and that the back of your head is a mossy sheltered cave when
there is trouble in the wind and that my cheek just fits the depression in your
shoulder.” Zelda
to Scott, 1931
Oh, there’s a bunch of them.
But two that come to mind are these:
"You are the finest,
loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that
is an understatement.” (from a letter Scott wrote to Zelda)
“My God, I am a forgotten man.”
Scott to Zelda in 1940 after The Great
Gatsby had been taken out of the Modern Library
“I must love you a lot for you have quite a
power to lift me up and cast me down.” —
Scott Fitzgerald to his daughter Scottie, 1939
“Men get to be a mixture of the
charming mannerisms of the women they have known.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“My dear, I think of you always
and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your
sweetness till morning.” Zelda to Scott, 1931
“Life is horrible without you because there is
not another living soul with whom I have the slightest communion.” — Zelda
to Scott, 1931
“Dearest: I am always grateful for all the
loyalties you gave me, and I am always loyal to the concepts that held us
together so long: the belief that life is tragic, that a man’s spiritual reward
is the keeping of his faith: that we shouldn’t hurt each other. And I love,
always your fine writing talent, your tolerance and generosity; and all your
happy endowments. Nothing could have survived our life.” Zelda
to Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1939
“Old death is so beautiful so
very beautiful we will die together, I know. Sweetheart…” Zelda to Scott, 1919
“Thanks again for saving me.
Someday, I’ll save you too…” — Zelda to Scott, 1940
“All these soft, warm nights
going to waste when I ought to be lying in your arms under the moon the dearest
arms in all the world darling arms that I love so to feel around me How much
longer before they’ll be here to stay? When I do get home again, you’ll
certainly have a most awful time ever moving me one inch from you.” — Zelda
to Scott, 1919
“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
“I look down the tracks and see
you coming and out of every haze and mist your darling rumpled trousers are
hurrying to me without you, dearest dearest I couldn’t see or hear or feel or
think or live I love you so and I’m never in all our lives going to let us be
apart another night.” — Zelda to Scott, 1920