--- title: "21 Way Quotes By Janet Fitch" description: "21 Way quotes by Janet Fitch. Plus more from Janet Fitch and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/604/janet-fitch-717_books_we-read-so-that-we-can-be-moved-by-a-new_1367662.png" --- > [We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/we-read-so-that-we-can-be-moved-by-a-new-way-of-looking-at-things/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/604/janet-fitch-717_books_we-read-so-that-we-can-be-moved-by-a-new_1367662.png) > [How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/how-can-i-shed-tears-for-a-man-i-should-never-have-allowed-to-touch/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1a/janet-fitch-717_men_how-can-i-shed-tears-for-a-man-i-should_581977.png) > [Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/dawn-has-a-way-of-casting-a-pall-on-any-night-magic/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21c/janet-fitch-717_casting_dawn-has-a-way-of-casting-a-pall-on-any_2445143.png) > [Wasn't that the way it always was? You didn't know, you couldn't tell, you just let it happen... Perhaps they didn't know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/wasn-t-that-the-way-it-always-was-you-didn-t-know-you-couldn-t-tell/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6c/janet-fitch-717_fine_wasn-t-that-the-way-it-always-was-you-di_1569385.png) > [A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/a-person-didn-t-need-to-be-beautiful-they-just-needed-to-be-loved-but/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3b/janet-fitch-717_beautiful_a-person-didn-t-need-to-be-beautiful-the_2158856.jpg) > [Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/loneliness-is-the-human-condition-cultivate-it-the-way-it-tunnels-3/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/janet-fitch-717_conditions_loneliness-is-the-human-condition-cultiv_2996727.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) > [In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/in-a-perverse-way-i-was-glad-for-the-stitches-glad-it-would-show-that/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/967/janet-fitch-717_being-hurt_in-a-perverse-way-i-was-glad-for-the-sti_2514750.png) > [Who was I, really? I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/who-was-i-really-i-was-the-sole-occupant-of-my-mother-s-totalitarian/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8b/janet-fitch-717_broken_who-was-i-really-i-was-the-sole-occupant_1117562.jpg) > [I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/i-think-that-oprah-s-on-a-mission-to-improve-the-lives-of-the-average/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae5/janet-fitch-717_average_i-think-that-oprah-s-on-a-mission-to-imp_1842865.png) > [She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/she-was-sitting-cross-legged-on-her-bed-in-her-white-kimono-writing/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29f/janet-fitch-717_bed_she-was-sitting-cross-legged-on-her-bed_951539.png) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/i-almost-said-you-re-not-broken-you-re-just-going-through-something/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42a/janet-fitch-717_bigs_i-almost-said-you-re-not-broken-you-re-j_2988769.png) > [...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/the-men-eyed-her-with-the-automatic-mix-of-curiosity-lust-and/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fd/janet-fitch-717_aesthetic_the-men-eyed-her-with-the-automatic-mix_977946.jpg) > [Many women get involved with a man that you pretty much know isn't suitable and you're kind of breaking your rules, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/many-women-get-involved-with-a-man-that-you-pretty-much-know-isn-t/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47c/janet-fitch-717_attractive_many-women-get-involved-with-a-man-that_1264970.jpg) > [I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/i-took-my-mother-s-knife-and-played-johnny-johnny-johnny-on-the/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f21/janet-fitch-717_beautiful_i-took-my-mother-s-knife-and-played-john_2430517.jpg) > [I think we're starved for a life of the senses. We're in the garage, we're in the car, we drive to work,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/i-think-we-re-starved-for-a-life-of-the-senses-we-re-in-the-garage-we/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/132/janet-fitch-717_car_i-think-we-re-starved-for-a-life-of-the_2587651.jpg) > [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) > [What is a scene? a) A scene starts and ends in one place at one time (the Aristotelian unities of time and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/what-is-a-scene-a-a-scene-starts-and-ends-in-one-place-at-one-time/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b7/janet-fitch-717_angry_what-is-a-scene-a-a-scene-starts-and-end_1106366.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) > [I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/i-imagined-my-soul-taking-in-these-words-like-silicated-water-in-the/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74f/janet-fitch-717_clay_i-imagined-my-soul-taking-in-these-words_995427.png) > [“We parked in back and walked down the stairs with their polished brass railings, past the old-fashioned kitchen. We could see the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/we-parked-in-back-and-walked-down-the-stairs-with-their-polished/) [Janet Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-fitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e17/janet-fitch-717_brass_we-parked-in-back-and-walked-down-the-st_3129304.png) ## Other authors on Way ## 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/way/janet-fitch/#itemlist", "name": "21 Way Quotes By Janet Fitch", "numberOfItems": 21, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Janet Fitch" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/we-read-so-that-we-can-be-moved-by-a-new-way-of-looking-at-things/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/604/janet-fitch-717_books_we-read-so-that-we-can-be-moved-by-a-new_1367662.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/604/janet-fitch-717_books_we-read-so-that-we-can-be-moved-by-a-new_1367662.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/604/janet-fitch-717_books_we-read-so-that-we-can-be-moved-by-a-new_1367662.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.” — Janet Fitch", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Janet Fitch" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/how-can-i-shed-tears-for-a-man-i-should-never-have-allowed-to-touch/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1a/janet-fitch-717_men_how-can-i-shed-tears-for-a-man-i-should_581977.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1a/janet-fitch-717_men_how-can-i-shed-tears-for-a-man-i-should_581977.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1a/janet-fitch-717_men_how-can-i-shed-tears-for-a-man-i-should_581977.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?” — Janet Fitch", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Janet Fitch" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-fitch/dawn-has-a-way-of-casting-a-pall-on-any-night-magic/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21c/janet-fitch-717_casting_dawn-has-a-way-of-casting-a-pall-on-any_2445143.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21c/janet-fitch-717_casting_dawn-has-a-way-of-casting-a-pall-on-any_2445143.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21c/janet-fitch-717_casting_dawn-has-a-way-of-casting-a-pall-on-any_2445143.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.” — Janet Fitch", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Wasn't that the way it always was? 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