Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch is most famously known as the author of the Oprah's Book Club novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College, located in Portland, Oregon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth9 November 1955
CountryUnited States of America
survival suffering care
How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.
ivory tables pages
I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.
kindness icy lasts
Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.
there-is-no-god ifs
And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.
daughter mother home
You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you
laughter night smell
The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.
coins too-much language
A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
handwriting computer terrible
As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.
echoes nowhere-to-go sound
echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.
stealing paid every-second
You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.
hanging-on moments
This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away.
apologizing
Never apologize. Never explain.
couple thinking play
A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.
swimming want fishes
I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.