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This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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Fall
Happens
Love
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A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.
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The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.
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Never apologize. Never explain.
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I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't.
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Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.
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Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.
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I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
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You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.
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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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I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.
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My hatred gives me strength.
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