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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.
— Janet Fitch
Perfection was no protection. Disaster had a way of dropping by just when you least expected it.
— Janet Fitch
I write every day ... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.
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her magenta lips a wolf's stained smile.
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This ragged heart," she said, pulling at her kimono. "I should rip it out and bury it for compost.
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I despise places where you have to have an assigned seat. Makes me feel like I'm at the airport.
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I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.
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We have no home, she told me. I am your home.
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I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.
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The moon rose, squatting in the strained blue.
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Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb.
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Just because a poet said something didn't mean it was true, only that it sounded good.
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Nature was always there, no matter what.
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We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water. I
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For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.
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I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.
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snakes rarely bite above the ankles
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Like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.
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I felt my guilt like a brand.
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She was my life raft, my turtle.
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That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.
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Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.
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The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.
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This was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces
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My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.
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Honey, this is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.
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How many children had this happened to? How many children were like me, floating like plankton in the wide ocean?
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If you didn't have anything truly great to offer, something truly amazing, then you should just shut the fuck up.
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There was power in me now, where there had been none.
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And in one drawer, twenty-seven names for tears. Heartdew. Griefhoney. Sadwater. Die Tranen. Eau de douleur. Los rios del corazon.
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You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.
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Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater.
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She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.
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What happened to a dream without a dreamer?
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Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.
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Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.
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To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.
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Don't tell me how you hate your new foster home. If they're not beating you, consider yourself lucky.
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Her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth
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They say time heals all wounds but they're lying
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There is no God, there is only what you want.
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I'm a fish swimming by Ray. Catch me if you want me.
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Things touched Claire. Maybe too much, but at least they touched her. She couldn't twist things around in her mind, make the ends come out right.
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It's your flaws, not your strengths, that go down in the depths of your books. You're exposed, like dreaming you're naked in a public building.
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It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.
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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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As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.
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I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.
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The phoenix must burn to emerge.
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She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I was a steel dress
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You ever wonder why people get out of bed in the morning? why do they bother? why not just drink turpentine?
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Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.
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We stared out at the city that hummed and glittered like a computer chip deep in some unknowable machine, holding its secret like a poker hand
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Well, she wasn't strong enough to avoid being the background of my art. Just the background. Her words just my canvas.
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I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself ... very dark in that way.
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Lovers who kill each other will blame it on the wind.
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Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners? But
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Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.
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My hatred gives me strength.
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Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.
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purification in fire. public cremation
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What is real is always worth it.
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Worth. He made you feel worthwhile. That was his gift.
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Dawn tinted the darkness like water ink.
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A book's flaws make it less predictable.
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Wima and Josephine. Well okay then. Okay.
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Mainly, it was the sense of order, vision retained over time, that brought me to my knees.
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He reminded me of someone who put your fingers in the door and smiled and talked to you while he smashed them.
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Her voice made me drunk, deep and sun-warmed, a hint of a foreign accent, Swedish singsong a generation removed.
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It's a rotten deal, the house always wins. Just sit at the table and play for all you're worth.
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Despair wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy. It
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I wished I could draw the way her broad-shouldered body threw a shadow on the moonpale dust. How brave she looked just then.
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She usually loved this band, but today their cheerfulness made her want to crash the car.
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How many people ask you to come share their life?
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He had loved her, but he hated himself more.
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