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Top 300 Janet Fitch Quotes (2024 Update)
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Janet Fitch Quote: “Her voice made me drunk, deep and sun-warmed, a hint of a foreign accent, Swedish singsong a generation removed.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “His voice was cloves and nightingales.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “I liked it when my mother tried to teach me things, when she paid attention. So often when I was with her, she was unreachable. Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “Maybe there was just the Devil, the real God of this lousy world.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “All that was a dream, you couldn’t hold on, you couldn’t depend on frosted glass and Debussy.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “It’s not that he was going nowhere, it’s that he’d already arrived.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don’t even know what’s going on with me until I’m writing. That doesn’t mean my books are autobiographical.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “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.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despair wasn’t a guest, you didn’t play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy. It frightened me for Claire to bare her needs so openly. If a person needed something badly, it was my experience that it would surely be taken away. I didn’t need to put mirrors on the roof to know that.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I’ve waited all my life for the computer.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “I think that Oprah’s on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “Reading LOVE JUNKIE is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despair wasn’t a guest, you didn’t play its favourite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “She was starting to think there might be such a thing as karma – that repetition – maybe you lived through the same thing over and over until you stopped caring. Maybe eventually it got less intense, until it was just nothing.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it’s the same thing.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “Father turned on me as if blackbirds had flown out of my mouth.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “To make films, you have to have boundless energy; you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I’m really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “Nature was always there, no matter what.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “We don’t have a unitary society anymore, you know; it’s very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “Now was too big, like a giant dark planet coming up over the horizon. she wanted then. That’s what he’d seen that day, a brightness with darkness all around, watching her, as if she were glamorous, as if she were a rare and mysterious creature.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “I cut a shred from my heart and dangled it on a homemade hook before her.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “We tried not to be in the same room at the same time when Starr was home, we set the air on fire between us.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “I felt beautiful but also interrupted. I wasn’t used to being so complicated.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “The expression in her eyes was bitter as nightshade. ‘You ask me about regret? Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air between, or each link separately, as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself? I’ve given more thought to this question than you can begin to imagine.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “How many people ask you to come share their life?”
Janet Fitch Quote: “No one considered that a key might lock as well as unlock.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “I’ll tell you this: history is the sound of a floor underneath a rotten regime, termite-ridden and ready to fall. It groans. It smells like ozone before a storm.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “His trips home were handholds for her, so she could swing from one square on the calendar to the next. When he said he was going to come home and didn’t, she swung forward and grasped thin air, fell.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “She was sorry to have hurt her, but she wanted them all to leave her alone, let her keep it together. Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “My heart felt like a balloon that was filling too full, and I panicked. I might get the bends, the way scuba divers did when they surfaced too fast.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “There were lockouts, bread riots. And absurdly, I turned seventeen right in the middle of it all. Ridiculous. An insult to celebrate such a thing when the whole country was sliding into the abyss.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “Those who love poetry, even my unreadable foreign brand, are a tender breed.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “The stupid things you say in the rain, that can’t ever be washed away.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn’t want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “She usually loved this band, but today their cheerfulness made her want to crash the car.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “It’s the difference between a true artist and everybody else.” Claire sighed. “They can remake the world.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do ’cause then at least I would’ve done what I wanted to do in life. What’s that worth?”
Janet Fitch Quote: “Maybe that was the only real truth about the world, that there was no answer, that wisdom and experience were no better than a flat-out roll of the dice.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “It’s magic, Astrid. You have to know how to reach up and pull beauty out of thin air.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “I felt just the way Billie Holiday sounded, like I’d cried all I could and it wasn’t enough.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “I’ve been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I’m an optimist.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “The pine shadows moved across my blanket, the wall behind me. People were just like that. We couldn’t even see each other, just the shadows moving, pushed by unseen winds.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “We parked in back and walked down the stairs with their polished brass railings, past the old-fashioned kitchen. We could see the chefs cooking. It smelled like stew, or meat loaf, the way time should smell, solid and nourishing.”
Janet Fitch Quote: “She wanted to know all about me, what I was like, who I was. I worried, there wasn’t really much to tell. I had no preferences. I ate anything, wore anything, sat where you told me, slept where you said. I was infinitely adaptable.”
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