513 Quotes by Janet Fitch

To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.

without my wounds, who was i? my scars were my face, my past was my life.

It wasn't awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn't want pain, she wouldn't want to be wounded or mutilated. She could never shoot herself or jump off a building. But being dead wasn't unthinkable.

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.

These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.

I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.

I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.