« All Up Quotes · Janet Fitch's Page
Up Quotes by Janet Fitch
- I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws. I held my…
- I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.
- My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every…
- We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a…
- I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral, ironic…
- The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence,…
- These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain
- I nodded. A man's world. But what did it mean? That men whistled and stared and yelled things at you, and you had to take…
- The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I…
- That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.
- I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the…
- I imagined Kandinsky's mind, spread out all over the world, and then gathered together. Everyone having only a piece of the puzzle. Only in a…
- She wanted to wake up like Dorothy and see Michael's face peering over the side of the bed, laughing. WHY, YOU JUST HIT YOUR HEAD.…
- When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past…
- Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.
- I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked…
- Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.
More Up Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong