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“Perhaps fifty percent of our friends and relations will tell you in good faith that it was my drinking that drove Zelda mad, and the other half would assure you that it was her madness that drove me to drink. Neither of these judgments means much of anything. These two groups of friends and relations would be unanimous in saying that each of us would have been much better off without the other. The irony is that we have never been more in love with each other in all our lives. She loves the alcohol on my lips. I cherish her most extravagant hallucinations. In the end, nothing really had much importance. We destroyed ourselves. But in all honesty, I never thought we destroyed each other.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald on his marriage to Zelda (via
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47 notes (via judyjetsons)Tags: their relationship is more interesting than any of the fictional ones he wrote tbqh because their relationship IS every fictional one he ever wrote but so much more complex because his stories reflect their relationship through his eyes but there was so much more to the story than just how HE saw it and the whole thing is so messy and tragic but tragic in a REAL way and not like a romance they really loved each other so much but they were such unhealthy individuals and everyone saw them as leading this amazing glamorous life they were the rock stars of the 20's but underneath that they were so broken inside and everything fell apart so badly *sobs* f. scott fitzgerald zelda fitzgerald scott fitzgerald quotable quotes history 1920's
