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We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Sentimental
Strive
Balance
Beauty
Oleanders
Sensual

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I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.
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Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.
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I could hear the icy winds of Sweden, but he didn't seem to feel the chill.
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Inside every human being, there is unlimited time and space.
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When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.
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I'm incredibly restless. I read a lot of poetry. I also find myself reading the first 20 pages of everything, looking for something. And you know what? I'm usually looking for the book I'm writing. And it's not out there!
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Never apologize. Never explain.
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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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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.
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The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.
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here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out
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She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined thing.
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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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Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.
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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.
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I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
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