Always learn poems by heart. They...

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

- Janet Fitch

White Oleander

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Always learn poems by heart,' she said. 'They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

- Janet Fitch

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

- Janet Fitch

A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

- Janet Fitch

I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?

- Janet Fitch

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

- Janet Fitch

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

- Janet Fitch

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