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You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.
Janet Fitch
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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills you, but he was wrong. you killed it by accident. thinking you were doing something else. shattering, when all you wanted to do was keep it safe.
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In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.
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To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.
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They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?
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One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
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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 word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.
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There is no God, there is only what you want.
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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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Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put her own two fingers in her mouth. Im so sorry. And pulled the trigger
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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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Dawn tinted the darkness like water ink.
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Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.
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Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.
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How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.
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She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
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