513 Quotes by Janet Fitch

You’ve been everywhere, haven’t you.” I had, but it hadn’t done me much good.

I saw that miracles were shocking, as overwhelming as disasters.

How vast was a human being’s capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn’t a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.

There was power in me now, where there had been none.

A book’s flaws make it less predictable.

Maybe there was just the Devil, the real God of this lousy world.

He said the reason we studied history was to find out why things were the way they were, how we got here. He said you could do anything you wanted to people who didn’t know their history. That was the way a totalitarian system worked.

No one considered that a key might lock as well as unlock.

Nature was always there, no matter what.