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Janet Fitch Quotes | Quotes said by Janet Fitch

  • Janet Fitch Quote #1

    ...and I thought, there was no God, there was only what you wanted.


  • Janet Fitch Quote #2

    A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #3

    A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #4

    A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #5

    A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it

  • Janet Fitch Quote #6

    A womans mistakes are different from a girls

  • Janet Fitch Quote #7

    Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched....

  • Janet Fitch Quote #8

    Always learn poems by heart,' she said. '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.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #9

    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.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #10

    And if there is no god?
    You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #11

    But then I realized, they weren't calling out for their own mothers. Not those weak women, those victims. Drug addicts, shopaholics, cookie bakers. They didn't mean the women who let them down, who failed to help them into womanhood, women who let their boyfriends run a train on them. Bingers, purgers, women smiling into mirrors, women in girdles, women on barstools. Not those women with their complaints and their magazines, controlling women, women who asked, what's in in for me? Not the women watching TV while they made dinner, women who dyed their hair blond behind closed doors trying to look twenty-three. They didn't mean the mothers washing dishes wishing they'd never married, the ones in the ER, saying they fell down the stairs, not the ones in prison saying lonliness is the human condition, get used to it.

    The wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to carry it away. What we needed was someone who bled, someone deep and rich as a field, a wide-hipped mother, awesome, immense, women like huge soft couches, mothers coursing with blood, mothers big enough, wide enough for us to hid in, to sink down to the bottom of, mothers who would breathe for us when we could not breathe anymore, who would fight for us, who would kill for us, die for us.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #12

    Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #13

    Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul.
    He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #14

    don't sulk. you're acting just like a man.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #15

    Don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #16

    don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live underneath them.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #17

    Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #18

    For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery white bark like a woman's body against the uncanny blue sky.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #19

    For what is writing besides capturing thoughts that belong to all of us, so that we can recognize ourselves, undestand ourselves, and perhaps, each other. Every thoughtful book about love makes us better lovers, I think. It opens the gates of perception.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #20

    Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #21

    Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #22

    His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #23

    I almost said, you’re not broken, you’re just going through something. But I couldn’t. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn’t worked.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #24

    I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #25

    I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #26

    I couldn't stop thinking about the body, what a hard fact it was.
    That philosopher who said we think, therefore we are, should have
    spent an hour in the maternity ward of Waite Memorial Hospital. He'd
    have had to change his whole philosophy.

    The mind was so thin, barely a spiderweb, with all its fine
    thoughts, aspirations, and beliefs in its own importance. Watch how
    easily it unravels, evaporates under the first lick of pain.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #27

    I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?

  • Janet Fitch Quote #28

    I gazed up as if I hadn't heard, but what I was thinking was, tell
    me more about the pretty girls. I was embarrassed for wanting it, it
    was base, what did pretty matter? I had thought that so many times
    with my mother. A person didn't need to be beautiful, they just
    needed to be loved. But I couldn't help wanting it. If that was the
    way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I'd take it.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #29

    I hadn’t understood at the time. If sinners were so unhappy,why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why.
    Without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past
    was my life.

  • Janet Fitch Quote #30

    I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

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