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Janet Fitch Biography

Janet Fitch (born November 9, 1955) is most famously known as the author of the Oprah's Book Club novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College, located in Portland, Oregon[citation needed].

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It wasn't awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn't want pain, she wouldn't want to be wounded or mutilated. She could never shoot herself or jump off a building. But being dead wasn't unthinkable.

Mutilated, Pain, Relief, Stillness, Want

I imagined Kandinsky's mind, spread out all over the world, and then gathered together. Everyone having only a piece of the puzzle. Only in a show like this could you see the complete picture, stack the pieces up, hold them to the light, see how it all fit together. It made me hopeful, like someday my life would make sense too, if I could just hold all the pieces together at the same time.

Everyone, Having, Hopeful, Light, Mind, Time

Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.

Battle, Excess, Petals, Poppies, Sweet

A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

Cost, Couple, Play, Thinking

Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.

Dream, Hangover, Net, Wake, Wake Up

They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?

Answer, Answers, Drug, Drugs, Question, Say

We have no home, she told me. I am your home.

Home, Told

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

Dream, Drinking, Echoes, Lotus, Sky, Visit

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

Depressed, Life, Optimist, Times, Under

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

Being Human, Depression, Human, Humans, Suffering

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

Away, Guitar, Half, Ocean, Sea

she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.

Girl, Mother, Said, Simpler, Whispered

These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain

Left, Lying, People, Picked, Rain

I usually start with something that has some energy, like a compressed character or a situation that's wound up like a spring. Then all I have to do is let it go, let its energy carry the story. And that may not turn out to be the beginning of the book.

Beginning, Book, Character, Compressed, Situation, Spring

The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.

Jasmine, Laughter, Night, Sap, Smell, Sound

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

Become, Heart, Make, Poems, Poetry, Water

she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was her line anyway?

Actresses, Anyway, Line, Lines, Said

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?"

Arms, Book, Father, Pull, Take, Two

Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.

Icy, Kindness, Lasts, Melt, Place

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.

Artist, Essential, Mind, Tattoo, Tear, Told

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