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Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda quotes

7 quotes from Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda by F. Scott Fitzgerald, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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I've tried so many times to think of a new way to say it—and its still I love you—love you—love you—my Sweetheart—
Zelda Sayre, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Montgomery, Alabama, May 1919
I wish the Beautiful and Damned had been a maturely written book because it was all true. We ruined ourselves—I have never honestly thought that we ruined each other
Zelda Fitzgerald, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1930
The nearest I ever came to leaving you was when you told me you thot I was a fairy in the Rue Palatine but now whatever you said aroused a sort of detached pity for you.
Zelda Fitzgerald, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1930
We came to Europe and I was sick and complained always.
Zelda Fitzgerald, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald from the Prangins clinic, Switzerland, September 1930
We drank always and finally came to France because there were always too many people in the house.
Zelda Fitzgerald, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald from the Prangins clinic, Switzerland, September 1930
Then I was horribly sick, from trying to have a baby and you didn't care much and when I was well we came back to Paris.
Zelda Fitzgerald, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald from the Prangins clinic, Switzerland, September 1930
We lived in the rue Tilsitt, in red plush and Teddy came for tea and we went to the markets with the Murphies.
Zelda Fitzgerald, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald from the Prangins clinic, Switzerland, September 1930

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