Nobody knew anyone else’s private world. In the end, they were all alone as inmates on death row, side by side. Sometimes you could get a look at one another with a little pocket mirror, cell to cell, but that was all.
Janet FitchWhenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.
Janet FitchI nodded. A man's world. But what did it mean? That men whistled and stared and yelled things at you, and you had to take it, or you get raped or beat up? A man's world meant places men could go but not women. It meant they had more money,and didn't have kids, not the way women did, to look after every second. And it meant that women loved them more than they loved the women, that they could want something with all their hearts, and then not.
Janet FitchBut I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.
Janet FitchHow can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?
Janet FitchThe pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.
Janet FitchTag: security
To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.
Janet FitchIt's such a liability to love another person.
Janet FitchYou 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 in 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 could begin to imagine.
Janet FitchThe story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.
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