moonlight-driive:

Zelda with her friends, probably around 1919.

fyeahzeldafitzgerald:

It is pictures like this that make me understand why all the men fell in love with her. Besides being breathtakingly gorgeous, she was smart and witty. She was in charge of her sexuality.

“You and I have beeen happy; We haven’t been happy just once, we’ve been happy a thousand times. Forget the past- what you can of it, and turn about and swim back home to me, to your haven for ever and ever- even though it may seem a dark cave at times and lit with torches of fury; it is the best refuge for you- turn gently in the waters through which you move and sail back.”

— Scott to Zelda, April 1934 (via Fitzgeraldquotes)

factoseintolerant:

The Fitzgeralds’ passports

In the Autumn of 1923 Zelda was interviewed by a reporter from the Baltimore Sun. The public, he had told her, wanted to know if she was the heroine of Scott’s books. When the reporter arrived he found Zelda sitting far back in the plastic overstuffed chair in the living room of their Great Neck house. She told him this was her first interview and then called Scott to come help her. The reporter described Scott as he came into the room as tall, blond, and broad-shouldered, towering over his petite wife. They began to speak about three short stories that Zelda was writing. She said there were no typewriters in their house, for they both wrote their drafts in longhand. “I like to write. Do you know, I thought my husband should write a perfectly good ending to one of the tales, and he wouldn’t! He called them ‘lop-sided’ too! Said that they began at the end.” Then she interrupted herself to talk about Scott’s writing; her favorite short story of his was “The Offshore Pirate.” “I love Scott’s books and heroines. I like the ones that are like me! That’s why I love Rosalind in This Side of Paradise. You see, I always read everything he writes. It spoils the fun, the surprise, I mean, a bit….But Rosalind! I like girls like that….I like their courage, their recklessness, and spendthriftness. Rosalind was the original American flapper.”

At this point in the interview Scott explained that Zelda’s youth was spent going to proms and living in Montgomery. “That’s a mighty long way from New York,” he added. The reporter asked him to describe his wife. “She is the most charming person in the world.” And, after receiving Zelda’s thanks, he continued: “That’s all. I refuse to amplify. Excepting - she’s perfect.”

Zelda said, “But you don’t think that….You think I’m a lazy woman.”

“No, I like it. I think you’re perfect. You’re always ready to listen to my manuscript, at any hour of the day or night. You’re charming — beautiful. You do, I believe, clean the ice-box once a week.”

Of the couple, their friend Ring Lardner, simplified: “Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty.” 

Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald with their daughter Scottie - early 1920s

Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald photographed at Dellwood, 1921