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she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.
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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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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.
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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.
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My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
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You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered. Someone whose fingers are a poem.
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How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?
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This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.
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Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say.
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The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.
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There is no God, there is only what you want.
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Wasn't that the way it always was? You didn't know, you couldn't tell, you just let it happen... Perhaps they didn't know themselves. Sometimes the line was very fine.
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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.
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purification in fire. public cremation
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I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple.
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And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.
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I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.
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We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.
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And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.
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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?
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I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.
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