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When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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Feels
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Smell
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I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I liked it when my mother shaped me this way. I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.
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I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.
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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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What happened to a dream without a dreamer?
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My hatred gives me strength.
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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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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.
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I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.
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Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway.
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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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No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.
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We have no home, she told me. I am your home.
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