513 Quotes by Janet Fitch

But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don't want people to know.

...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd stare at an animal. She pretended not to notice. To remind them she was a person was too much effort. Objects bore no guilt.

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

I kept sending out stories and getting rejected.

Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.

It's such a liability to love another person.

I'm particularly fond of the Mulholland Fountain, at Riverside Drive and Los Feliz Boulevard, when it turns colors at night.