Quotes of Janet Fitch - somelinesforyou

“ The phoenix must burn to emerge. ”

- Janet Fitch

“ She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad. ”

- Janet Fitch

“ Isn't it funny. I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than I ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you. ”

- Janet Fitch

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

- Janet Fitch

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

- Janet Fitch

“ Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. ”

- Janet Fitch

“ 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

“ 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

“ The phoenix must burn to emerge. ”

- Janet Fitch

“ The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me. ”

- Janet Fitch

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

- Janet Fitch

“ The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me. ”

- Janet Fitch

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

- Janet Fitch

“ A cliche is everything you've ever heard of. ”

- Janet Fitch

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

- Janet Fitch

“ Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can doflow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can dopaint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room. ”

- Janet Fitch

“ 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

“ Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to. ”

- Janet Fitch

“ I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season. ”

- Janet Fitch

“ I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season. ”

- Janet Fitch

“ Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself… know what you want. ”

- Janet Fitch

“ Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself… know what you want. ”

- Janet Fitch

“ Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself… know what you want. ”

- Janet Fitch

“ Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself… know what you want. ”

- Janet Fitch

“ Just because a poet said something didn't mean it was true, only that it sounded good. ”

- Janet Fitch
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