Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

—Zelda Fitzgerald

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About Zelda Fitzgerald

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Zelda Fitzgerald (née Sayre; July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948) was an American novelist, painter, writer, and socialite. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a wealthy Southern family, she became locally famous for her beauty and high spirits. In 1920, she married writer F. Scott Fitzgerald after the popular success...

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She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do.

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[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

—Zelda Fitzgerald

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A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

—George Herbert

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The heart is forever inexperienced.

—Henry David Thoreau

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I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result, I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

—George Steiner

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Whoever said it got easier with time was wrong, death never got easier. The pain dulls around your heart, numbing the spot the deceased inhabited in your chest—but it was never easier. Loss was still loss—a physical pain, a hurt that reaches deep inside you and smothers your soul, forever indenting their memory.

—Kelsie Leverich in The Valentine’s Arrangement

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Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!

—Torquato Tasso

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