513 Quotes by Janet Fitch

don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live underneath them.

The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated.

My father, that silhouette, a form comprised of all I did notknow, a shape filled with rain. "Whenever I asked, she'd say, 'Youhad no father. I'm your father. You sprang full-blown from myforehead, like Athena.

Crows squawked raucously in the trees. It sounded like they were tearing something apart, something they didn't even want, just for the fun of destroying it.

Prostitute. Whore. What did they really mean anyway? Only words. Words trailing their streamers of judgment. I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots-- prostitute, housewife, saint-- like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives.

The view of the highway was so bad that you could not even see the next viaduct. Te moment it loomed out of the mist it disappeared again, as if the world created itself and was blotted out again.

She didn't like weepy films. She liked toquote D. H. Lawrence : "Sentimentalism is the working off on yourselfof feelings you haven't really got." Hers were grim European films— Antonioni, Bertolucci, Bergman — films where everybodydied or wished they had.

Things weren’t real to you. They were just raw material for you to reshape to tell a story you liked better. You could never just listen to a boy play guitar, you’d have to turn it into a poem, make it all about you.