Famous Quotes by Janet Fitch

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

Freedom is dangerous but it’s precious, too. You can’t live in chains just because you’re scared.

You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.

The universe is full of men going through the motions of life, without life.

You can't control how other people hurt you. That's just life.

Even the worst pain can be a teacher. You just have to let it teach you.

Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.

We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

When you made plans, the ocean laughed.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best you can do is know yourself... know what you want.

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling.

Words were another form of magic. They held power.

There is no perfect truth, only honest contradictions.

A lie could travel halfway around the world while the truth was still putting on its shoes.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

What a luxury a cat is, to curl up in your lap, to feel as if you are the center of the universe.

Beauty was deceptive. I had learned that. Beauty equaled danger.

A mother’s love is supposed to be pure and unconditional. But I was starting to think that love like that doesn’t exist.

Art is what remains when language fails.

Love was dangerous. It made you an open book.

Healing from childhood trauma is not about erasing memories. It’s about learning how to live with them without letting them control you.

Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space.

Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space.