The White Oleander Quotes

#1. Never let a man stay the night," she told me. "Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.

Janet Fitch

#2. I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy.
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Janet Fitch

#3. I've had no shellfish and no pork for quite some time.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#4. Talk to me. Look up, I thought. But she didn't, only stopped and picked a sprig of alyssum to smell the honey. I cut a shred from my heart and dangled it on a homemade hook before her.

Janet Fitch

#5. The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

Albert Einstein

#6. 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.

Janet Fitch

#7. Wings of a half finished book across his chest.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#8. I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't.

Janet Fitch

#9. A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Groucho Marx

#10. Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.' She smiled, baring the part between her two upper teeth. 'We are the free birds. They want to be us.

Janet Fitch

#11. What's real is always worth it,' she explained to me. 'Look how it's made.' She showed me the shoulders, the way they were knit together with a separate yoke instead of a seam. 'You'll wear it your whole life.

Janet Fitch

#12. Don't chase accomplishments , people or positions to find your worth. You're already loved as you are by the Father.

Chris Tomlin

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

Janet Fitch

#14. To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.

Plato

#15. The people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger. They were blind sleepwalkers on tightropes, fingers scoring thin air.

Janet Finch

#16. How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.

Janet Fitch

#17. We tried not to be in the same room at the same time when Starr was home, we set the air on fire between us.

Janet Fitch

#18. She's not as pretty as you," I said
"But she's a simpler girl," my mother whispered.

Janet Fitch

#19. There's an art to crying without a sound, and I'm a master. But

Courtney C. Stevens

#20. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives.

Janet Fitch

#21. Sometimes life has its way with you. It peels back the layers of your existence like the skin of an onion until the real you glows underneath, raw and painful to the touch. It's in those moments, in that hour, you look to those that give you strength - for me,

Addison Moore

#22. I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

Janet Fitch

#23. Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

Janet Fitch