#zelda gets all the glory but ginevra was the freshest (and the best?)

[rosepompadour]

You don’t understand. I have written about you — a dozen times. That funny little curl to your lip I used in a story six years ago; that way your face all changed just when you were going to laugh — I gave that characteristic to one of the first girls I ever wrote about; the way I stayed around trying to say good-night, knowing that you’d rush to the phone as soon as the front door closed behind me — all that was in a book that I wrote once upon a time.

F. Scott Fitzgerald about Ginevra King, "One Hundred False Starts" (1933)

#oh ginevra this man was more fragile than glass #how could you not SEE it? #i would love to see the entirety of her letters #zelda gets all the glory but ginevra was the freshest (and the best?) #only two years before he died: ' - a love affair that was still bleeding as fresh as the skin wound on a haemophile.' #f. scott fitzgerald #ginevra king #literature