Janet Fitch: Trending quotes (page 2)

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

“If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?”

“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.”

“Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.”

“Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.”

“They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?”

“When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.”

“That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.”

“It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars.”

“The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.”

“No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.”

“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.”

“I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.”

“How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.”

“I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.”

“this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces”

“How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?”

“I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages… and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.”

“How many people ask you to come share their life?”