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
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  2. They're in love. Fuck the war. - Thomas Pynchon

  3. If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. - Kristin Hannah

  4. And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful. - Ruskin Bond

  5. The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second. - Aberjhani

More Quotes By Zelda Fitzgerald
  1. Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

  2. I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

  3. I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.

  4. And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

  5. .. . she tried to weave the strength of her father and the young beauty of her first love with David, the happy oblivion of her teens and her warm protected childhood into a magic cloak.

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