Janet Fitch

Janet Fitch (born 1955) is the author of three fiction novels. Her book, White Oleander, was an Oprah's Book Club novel.

7 Quotes

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

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It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

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My hatred gives me strength.

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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

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I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

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What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.

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You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

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