A women mistakes are different from a girl

— Janet Fitch

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

— Janet Fitch

Don't sulk. You're acting just like a man.

— Janet Fitch

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

— Janet Fitch

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

— Janet Fitch

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

— Janet Fitch

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

— Janet Fitch

For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery white bark like a woman's body against the uncanny blue sky.

— Janet Fitch

For what is writing besides capturing thoughts that belong to all of us, so that we can recognize ourselves, understand ourselves, and perhaps, each other. Every thoughtful book about love makes us better lovers, I think. It opens the gates of perception.

— Janet Fitch

Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dali son the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins.

— Janet Fitch