“for she is my love, and other women are but big bodies of flame. who in the world would have thot of… — Janet Fitch Love Copy Share Image
“How it was. How it was that the earth could open up under you and swallow you whole, close above you as… — Janet Fitch Nature Copy Share Image
“But then I realized, they weren't calling out for their own mothers. Not those weak women, those victims. Drug addicts, shopaholics, cookie… — Janet Fitch Behind closed doors Copy Share Image
“Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater.” — Janet Fitch Theatre Copy Share Image
Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke… — Janet Fitch Broke Copy Share Image
Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives. — Janet Fitch Connected Copy Share Image
I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws.… — Janet Fitch Beautiful Copy Share Image
I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze. — Janet Fitch Photograph Copy Share Image
...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump. — Janet Fitch Height Copy Share Image
She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and… — Janet Fitch Dank Copy Share Image
She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad. — Janet Fitch Happiness Copy Share Image
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You… — Janet Fitch Atomic bomb Copy Share Image
I nodded. A man's world. But what did it mean? That men whistled and stared and yelled things at you, and you… — Janet Fitch Beats Copy Share Image
In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the… — Janet Fitch Being hurt Copy Share Image
“I wanted to freeze this moment forever, the chimes, the slight splash of the water, the chink of the dogs’ leashes, laughter… — Janet Fitch Happiness Copy Share Image
“And suddenly I felt panic. I'd made a mistake, like when I'd played chess with Ray and knew a second too late… — Janet Fitch Anxiety Copy Share Image
This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to… — Janet Fitch Hanging on Copy Share Image
I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be… — Janet Fitch Children Copy Share Image
“(letters) They were like a kelp forest, they cast a weird green light, you could get lost there, become tangled and drown.… — Janet Fitch Green light Copy Share Image
“I regret nothing. No woman with any self-respect would have done less. The question of good and evil will always be one… — Janet Fitch Good and evil Copy Share Image
“We stared out at the city that hummed and glittered like a computer chip deep in some unknowable machine, holding its secret… — Janet Fitch Computers Copy Share Image
