513 Quotes by Janet Fitch

You’ve got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

Now I wish she’d never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I’ve told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

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.

A cliche is everything you’ve ever heard of.

Well, anyone could buy a green Jaguar, find beauty in a Japanese screen two thousand years old. I would rather be a connoisseur of neglected rivers and flowering mustard and the flush of iridescent pink on an intersection pigeon’s charcoal neck.

And in one drawer, twenty-seven names for tears. Heartdew. Griefhoney. Sadwater. Die Tranen. Eau de douleur. Los rios del corazon.

Don’t hoard the past. Don’t cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.

I’ve been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I’m an optimist.