Heart Quotes by Janet Fitch

10 Heart quotes by Janet Fitch

Fitch writes with a haunting, poetic tone, and these ten lines distill her skill at turning emotional pain into moving imagery. The selection offers a quick, evocative taste of her compelling narrative voice.

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“that was her edge. her secret weapon. she didnt give a shit.”

Janet Fitch

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Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.

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She was not used to being cruel, but he had taught her how.

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She was starting to think there might be such a thing as karma - that repetition - maybe you lived through the…

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Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your…

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It wasn't awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn't want pain, she wouldn't want to be…

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“She was used to taking the world as it was, she'd never have guessed you could get what you wanted by asking…

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“It was a shrine. Josie hadn't thought to do that. She had no shrine, no candles. She only knew how to kill…

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I nodded. A man's world. But what did it mean? That men whistled and stared and yelled things at you, and you…

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So much wanting and longing, clutching, desiring, passion and hatred and terrible need. Here, death was suitable, there was room for it,…

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“They can't touch us. We're the Vikings. We go into battle without armor for the flush and the blood of it.”

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“But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.”

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“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…

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

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“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…

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“what was the point in creating something that was so futile and so precious? everything beautiful was like that. a little bit of the…

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“We received our coloring from Norsemen. Hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees. We are the ones…

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¨Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness.…

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I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.

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