”She had the waywardness of a Southern belle and the lack of inhibitions of a child.
I have rarely known a woman who expressed herself so delightfully and so freshly: she had no readymade phrases on the one hand and made no straining for effect on the other. It evaporated easily, however, and I remember only one thing she said that night: that the writing of Galsworthy was a shade of blue for which she did not care.” - Edmund Wilson about Zelda Fitzgerald, the muse behind this collection. She was a cocktail party with valium edge to it.