--- title: "7 Fingers Quotes By Janet Fitch" description: "7 Fingers quotes by Janet Fitch. Plus more from Janet Fitch and more Fingers sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/969/janet-fitch-717_age_you-must-find-a-boy-your-own-age-someone_218460.png" --- > [You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/you-must-find-a-boy-your-own-age-someone-mild-and-beautiful-to-be/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/969/janet-fitch-717_age_you-must-find-a-boy-your-own-age-someone_218460.png) > [Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/find-someone-who-will-tremble-for-your-touch-someone-whose-fingers/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/338/janet-fitch-717_fingers_find-someone-who-will-tremble-for-your-t_219184.png) > [He reminded me of someone who put your fingers in the door and smiled and talked to you while he smashed them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/he-reminded-me-of-someone-who-put-your-fingers-in-the-door-and-smiled/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/693/janet-fitch-717_doors_he-reminded-me-of-someone-who-put-your-f_302724.png) > [Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/her-fingers-moved-among-barnacles-and-mussels-blue-black-sharp-edged/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee9/janet-fitch-717_barnacles_her-fingers-moved-among-barnacles-and-mu_470417.png) > [Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/death-like-a-lover-caressing-him-promising-him-peace-running-its/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/644/janet-fitch-717_caressing_death-like-a-lover-caressing-him-promisi_877970.png) > [It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/it-was-her-first-book-an-indigo-cover-with-a-silver-moonflower-an-art/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bca/janet-fitch-717_art_it-was-her-first-book-an-indigo-cover-wi_1694218.png) > [They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/they-dream-of-men-with-gentle-hands-eloquent-with-tenderness-fingers/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/388/janet-fitch-717_braille_they-dream-of-men-with-gentle-hands-eloq_2296078.png) ## Other authors on Fingers ## More by Janet Fitch > [How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/how-could-anybody-confuse-truth-with-beauty-i-thought-as-i-looked-at/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) > [I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/i-love-derrick-brown-for-the-surprise-of-one-word-waking-up-next-to/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) > [“That fucking crow-bodied thing had won. How gleeful it was now. All because he'd wanted to live, forget genius and destiny, and simply be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/that-fucking-crow-bodied-thing-had-won-how-gleeful-it-was-now-all/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) > [No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/no-matter-how-unappealing-each-of-them-imagines-he-is-somehow-worthy/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) > [The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/the-nearest-i-d-come-to-feeling-anything-like-god-was-the-plan-blue/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) > [When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/when-most-people-looked-at-josie-tyrell-they-only-saw-a-certain/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) > [“They can't touch us. We're the Vikings. We go into battle without armor for the flush and the blood of it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/they-can-t-touch-us-we-re-the-vikings-we-go-into-battle-without-armor/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) > [“But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/but-i-knew-one-more-thing-that-people-who-denied-who-they-were-or/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) > [“To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind's destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race. Three…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/to-dare-to-see-is-to-steal-fire-from-the-gods-this-is-mankind-s/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) > [This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/this-is-what-happens-when-you-fall-in-love-you-re-looking-at-a/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) > [“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded trains, emergency…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/if-i-were-a-poet-that-s-what-i-d-write-about-people-who-worked-in-the/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) > [“what was the point in creating something that was so futile and so precious? everything beautiful was like that. a little bit of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/what-was-the-point-in-creating-something-that-was-so-futile-and-so/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) > [“We received our coloring from Norsemen. Hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees. We are the ones…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/we-received-our-coloring-from-norsemen-hairy-savages-who-hacked-their/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/loneliness-is-the-human-condition-cultivate-it-the-way-it-tunnels/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) > [I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/i-was-tired-of-men-hanging-in-doorways-standing-too-close-men-who/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fingers/janet-fitch/#itemlist", "name": "7 Fingers Quotes By Janet Fitch", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. 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