... while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I… — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
“This was Scott. This is Scott, always looking back to try to figure out how to go forward, where happiness and prosperity… — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
“Being close to him with her face in the space between his ear and his stiff army collar was like being initiated… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It was not, Zelda wrote, prosperity or the softness of life, or any instability that marred the war generation; it was a… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
“The past would haunt when the present let up, and always, always the future would loom with its certainty of tragedy and… — Erika Robuck Copy Share Image
“Remembrance. Even more, confession. It did always made the heavy things come loose.” — Erika Robuck Copy Share Image
“She did as she pleased, regarding life as 'an inexhaustible counter', from which she seemed to be continually picking out presents for… — Judith Mackrell Copy Share Image
“It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.” — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Scott is gone. I've had two days with this truth. This truth and me, we're acquainted now, past the shock of our… — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
“I hope I'll never get ambitious enough to try anything. It's so much nicer to be damned sure I could do it… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
“In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself without a counterstrength and they were… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image