If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil.

Janet Fitch


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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

Janet Fitch


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If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. They knew how long the night was. They knew the sound life made as it left. It rattled, like a slamming screen door in the wind. Night workers live without illusions, they wiped dreams off counters, they loaded freight. They headed back to the airport for one last fare.

Janet Fitch

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A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn’t want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

Janet Fitch

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In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn’t like America, where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. We hadn’t learned yet, that there was no such thing as an empty canvas.

Janet Fitch


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God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.

Janet Fitch


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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

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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.

Janet Fitch


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It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

Janet Fitch

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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment.

Janet Fitch

Mots clés truth alone lonely



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