Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.
Janet FitchStichwörter: never explain apologize taught excusses
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 FitchStichwörter: freedom problems envy white-oleander wanting free-bird
It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.
Janet FitchStichwörter: loser nowhere ingrid
The expression in her eyes was bitter as nightshade. 'You ask me about regret? Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air between, or each link separately, as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself? I've given more thought to this question than you can begin to imagine.
Janet FitchStichwörter: mother regret daughter chain ingrid links
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.
Stichwörter: home paul never astrid displaced
I'm a fish swimming by Ray. Catch me if you want me.
Janet Fitchwithout my wounds, who was i? my scars were my face, my past was my life.
Janet FitchThat was the thing about words, they were clear and specific—chair, eye, stone—but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.
Janet FitchI didn't tell her about the free-for-alls on the school yard, muggings on the bus. A girl burned a cigarette hole in the back of another girl's shirt at nutrition right in front of me looking at me as if daring me to stop her. I saw a boy being threatened with a knife on the hallway outside my spanish class. Girls talked about their abortions in gym class. Claire didn't need to know about that. I wanted the world to be beautiful for her. I wanted things to work out. I always had a great day no matter what.
Janet FitchStichwörter: astrid
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 FitchStichwörter: paul-white-oleander
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