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
loneliness pennies
My loneliness tasted like pennies.
running book party
I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.
dream dreamer happened
What happened to a dream without a dreamer?
pain bears
One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
beauty girl dream
What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.
mom mother imagine
I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
home ashes want
Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.
wind sweden icy
I could hear the icy winds of Sweden, but he didn't seem to feel the chill.
sleep lovers giddy
Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched....
block reality doors
And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.
flames body bigs
For she is my love, and other women are but big bodies of flame.
wanted
And I thought, there was no God, there was only what you wanted.
oleanders way want
The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.
numbness broken way
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 her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked...