Janet Fitch quotes

Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people. (Janet Fitch)
Your protagonist is your reader's portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you're creating. They don't have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering. View quote
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As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer. View quote
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Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human. View quote
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To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful. View quote
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She's never where she is,' I said. 'She's only inside her head. View quote
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without my wounds, who was i? my scars were my face, my past was my life. View quote
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There is no God, there is only what you want. View quote
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A fish has no concept of water. View quote
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Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want. View quote
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Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape. (Janet Fitch)
Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up. View quote
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How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it. View quote
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She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar. View quote
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Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams. View quote
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Just because a poet said something didn't mean it was true, only that it sounded good. View quote
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Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay. View quote
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The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way. View quote
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In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show. View quote
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Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned gun. Then it exploded in your face on a November day in the rain. View quote
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My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet another jar of mace or chili powder rather than having to hunt down its last incarnation. (Janet Fitch)
A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words. View quote
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But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger. View quote
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If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I? View quote
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Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun. View quote
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