--- title: "17 Want Quotes By Janet Fitch" description: "17 Want quotes by Janet Fitch. Plus more from Janet Fitch and more Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/669/janet-fitch-717_catch_i-m-a-fish-swimming-by-catch-me-if-you-w_1879667.png" --- > [I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/i-m-a-fish-swimming-by-catch-me-if-you-want-me/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/669/janet-fitch-717_catch_i-m-a-fish-swimming-by-catch-me-if-you-w_1879667.png) > [It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/it-was-only-natural-to-want-to-destroy-something-you-could-never-have/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e9/janet-fitch-717_destroy_it-was-only-natural-to-want-to-destroy-s_1705028.png) > [There is no God, there is only what you want.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/there-is-no-god-there-is-only-what-you-want/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/809/janet-fitch-717_god_there-is-no-god-there-is-only-what-you-w_2610083.png) > [When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/when-i-read-i-want-to-be-fully-transported-to-another-place-i-want-to/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3a/janet-fitch-717_feels_when-i-read-i-want-to-be-fully-transport_1540354.png) > [She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/she-would-buy-magic-every-day-of-the-week-love-me-that-face-said-i-m/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e84/janet-fitch-717_days-of-the-week_she-would-buy-magic-every-day-of-the-wee_509762.png) > [Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/don-t-turn-over-the-rocks-if-you-don-t-want-to-see-the-pale-creatures/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/643/janet-fitch-717_creatures_don-t-turn-over-the-rocks-if-you-don-t-w_616274.png) > [Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/do-you-ever-want-to-go-home-i-asked-paul-he-brushed-an-ash-from-my/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6e/janet-fitch-717_ashes_do-you-ever-want-to-go-home-i-asked-paul_311242.png) > [As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/as-an-artist-you-can-never-get-what-you-want-what-you-do-never/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/580/janet-fitch-717_approach_as-an-artist-you-can-never-get-what-you_798737.png) > [A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/a-couple-of-times-i-could-have-turned-a-trick-but-i-didn-t-want-to/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/249/janet-fitch-717_cost_a-couple-of-times-i-could-have-turned-a_2637650.png) > [The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/the-best-you-ll-ever-do-is-to-understand-yourself-know-what-it-is/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08f/janet-fitch-717_cattle_the-best-you-ll-ever-do-is-to-understand_1774946.png) > [I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/i-decided-that-if-i-was-never-going-to-sell-anything-as-long-as-i/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75d/janet-fitch-717_causes_i-decided-that-if-i-was-never-going-to-s_1870763.png) > [I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/i-understood-why-she-did-it-at-that-moment-i-knew-why-people-tagged/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/434/janet-fitch-717_beats_i-understood-why-she-did-it-at-that-mome_1327359.png) > [Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/don-t-attach-yourself-to-anyone-who-shows-you-the-least-bit-of-2/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4df/janet-fitch-717_attention_don-t-attach-yourself-to-anyone-who-show_2895897.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/it-wasn-t-awful-to-be-dead-the-stillness-would-almost-be-a-relief-she/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ee/janet-fitch-717_awful_it-wasn-t-awful-to-be-dead-the-stillness_847128.png) > [I nodded. A man's world. But what did it mean? That men whistled and stared and yelled things at you, and you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/i-nodded-a-man-s-world-but-what-did-it-mean-that-men-whistled-and/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b02/janet-fitch-717_beats_i-nodded-a-man-s-world-but-what-did-it-m_2495029.png) > [I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/i-watched-her-for-a-long-time-memorizing-her-shoulders-her-long/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fda/janet-fitch-717_begging_i-watched-her-for-a-long-time-memorizing_1020536.jpg) > [I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/i-wondered-why-it-had-to-be-so-poisonous-oleanders-could-live-through/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b7/janet-fitch-717_bitter_i-wondered-why-it-had-to-be-so-poisonous_1918472.jpg) ## Other authors on Want ## 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/want/janet-fitch/#itemlist", "name": "17 Want Quotes By Janet Fitch", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Janet Fitch" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/i-m-a-fish-swimming-by-catch-me-if-you-want-me/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/669/janet-fitch-717_catch_i-m-a-fish-swimming-by-catch-me-if-you-w_1879667.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/669/janet-fitch-717_catch_i-m-a-fish-swimming-by-catch-me-if-you-w_1879667.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/669/janet-fitch-717_catch_i-m-a-fish-swimming-by-catch-me-if-you-w_1879667.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.” — Janet Fitch", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Janet Fitch" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/it-was-only-natural-to-want-to-destroy-something-you-could-never-have/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e9/janet-fitch-717_destroy_it-was-only-natural-to-want-to-destroy-s_1705028.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e9/janet-fitch-717_destroy_it-was-only-natural-to-want-to-destroy-s_1705028.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e9/janet-fitch-717_destroy_it-was-only-natural-to-want-to-destroy-s_1705028.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.” — Janet Fitch", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is no God, there is only what you want.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Janet Fitch" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/there-is-no-god-there-is-only-what-you-want/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/809/janet-fitch-717_god_there-is-no-god-there-is-only-what-you-w_2610083.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/809/janet-fitch-717_god_there-is-no-god-there-is-only-what-you-w_2610083.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/809/janet-fitch-717_god_there-is-no-god-there-is-only-what-you-w_2610083.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There is no God, there is only what you want.” — Janet Fitch", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. 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