Janet Fitch, White Oleander

Quotes

• “Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect...”
• “Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes dem...”
• “The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like t...”
• “Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your...”
• “I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.”
• “What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?”
• “Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.”
• “And if there is no god?You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.”
• “The phoenix must burn to emerge.”