Janet Fitch Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.

  Janet Fitch

  Artist, Past, Phoenix

• Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.

  Janet Fitch

  Thinking, Past, America

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

• without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.

  Janet Fitch

  Past, Faces, Scar

  "White Oleander". Book by Janet Fitch, 1999.

• When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past the mouth and the eyes, the architecture of the body, her fleshly masquerade. Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater. But Michael had to come backstage. He went down into the mines, into the dark, and brought up the gold, your new self, a better self. But what good was it if he was just going to leave her behind?

  Janet Fitch

  Eye, Dark, Boys

• at least if you were ignorant you could do wat you wanted. you had no idea wat had been acheived in the past. you were free instead of chewed at by bleeding impotence, dissolved away like a pearl in acid

  Janet Fitch

  Past, Ideas, Ignorant

• We parked in back and walked down the stairs with their polished brass railings, past the old-fashioned kitchen. We could see the chefs cooking. It smelled like stew, or meat loaf, the way time should smell, solid and nourishing.

  Janet Fitch

  Past, Smell, Cooking

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.137, Hachette UK

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