Janet Fitch Quotes - Page 9

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• That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.

  Janet Fitch

  Sweet, Memories, Bitter

  Janet Fitch (2006). “Paint It Black: A Novel”, p.189, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Janet Fitch

  Thinking, Creating, Stories

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• What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?

  Janet Fitch

  Life, Praise, Damn

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws. I held my hand up and there was satisfaction at seeing my blood, the way there was when I saw the red gouges onmy face that people stared at and turned away. They were thinking I was beautiful, but they were wrong, now they could see how ugly and mutilated I was.

  Janet Fitch

  Beautiful, Mother, Thinking

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the paint on new cars and beat up well-tended children. It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

  Janet Fitch

  Children, Wall, People

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.

  Janet Fitch

  Lonely, Loneliness, People

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.

  Janet Fitch

  Night, Magic, Dawn

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

  Janet Fitch

  Sensual, Balance, Oleanders

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.

  Janet Fitch

  Falling In Love, Love You, Natural

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• The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a passionflower vine and its fruit. Stacks of thick books on art and design and a collection of glass paperweights filled the coffee table. It was enormously beautiful, a sensibility I'd never encountered anywhere, a relaxed luxury. I could feel my mother's contemptuous gaze falling on the cluttered surfaces, but I was tired of three white flowers in a glass vase. There was more to life than that.

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  Beautiful, Mother, Art

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• She wanted to wake up like Dorothy and see Michael's face peering over the side of the bed, laughing. WHY, YOU JUST HIT YOUR HEAD. But it was not a dream and there was no Kansas and he was never coming back.

  Janet Fitch

  Dream, Kansas, Laughing

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• Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals without any trouble, so they weren't worth as much. It was the emerald that didn't break that was the really valuable thing.

  Janet Fitch

  Stronger, Pieces, Emeralds

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.

  Janet Fitch

  Home, Writing, Exercise

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• When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past the mouth and the eyes, the architecture of the body, her fleshly masquerade. Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater. But Michael had to come backstage. He went down into the mines, into the dark, and brought up the gold, your new self, a better self. But what good was it if he was just going to leave her behind?

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  Eye, Dark, Boys

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• The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.

  Janet Fitch

  Rocks, Oatmeal, Boxes

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• In our exterior life, we can be only one person. But in our imagination, we can be anyone, anywhere.

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  Imagination, Persons, Exterior

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• We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.

  Janet Fitch

  Way, Moved, New Ways

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.

  Janet Fitch

  Inspiration, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I'm always looking for something new and interesting to say. And it can't be something I'm directly experiencing.

  Janet Fitch

  Interesting, Something New

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• Inside every human being, there is unlimited time and space.

  Janet Fitch

  Space, Being There, Unlimited

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• I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.

  Janet Fitch

  Writing, Issues, Fiction

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• When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.

  Janet Fitch

  Writing, Stories, Conflict

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• I'm incredibly restless. I read a lot of poetry. I also find myself reading the first 20 pages of everything, looking for something. And you know what? I'm usually looking for the book I'm writing. And it's not out there!

  Janet Fitch

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.

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  Smell, Want, Feels

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• I think we're starved for a life of the senses. We're in the garage, we're in the car, we drive to work, we're in a windowless cubicle that's gray and beige. In a way, it's funny that we consider ourselves an advanced culture, because people who live in so-called primitive environments still enjoy the richness of the smells, colors, and sounds of our world. We all crave that.

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  Thinking, Our World, Color

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