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.

— Janet Fitch

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

— Janet Fitch

My hatred gives me strength.

— Janet Fitch

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

— Janet Fitch

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

— Janet Fitch

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.

— Janet Fitch

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

— Janet Fitch