janet fitch Quotes
I almost said, you’re not broken, you’re just going through something. But I couldn’t. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn’t worked.
The question of good and the nature of evil will always be one of philosophy’s most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself. If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, thinker, every original mind, is evil. Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than mouth clichés lent us from the so-called Fathers. To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind’s destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race.
Never let a man stay the night,” she told me. “Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.
I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.
Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.
...and I thought, there was no God, there was only what you wanted.
A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives.
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.
Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
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