Said Quotes by Janet Fitch

14 Said quotes by Janet Fitch

Janet Fitch’s spoken moments, though few, carry the atmospheric weight of her novels, offering a compact taste of her lyrical storytelling.

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Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind.

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

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“What isn't there is as important as what is, Phil always said.”

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She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

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“This is Zen", she said. "No flaw, no moment's hesitation. A window onto grace.”

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she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.

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She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you…

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“Beauty said there was something more than just one fucking thing after another. Time could rest for a moment, stop all that…

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she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was…

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It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of…

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Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the…

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But that was the thing about zero. Its weakness. Even if zero had taken over the entire universe, the biggest fascist of…

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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…

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This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and…

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“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…

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No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.

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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…

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When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw…

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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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