Janet Fitch Quotes

She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I’m so lonely, so desperate. I’ll give you whatever you want.

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. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want.

It wasn't so awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn't want the pain, she wouldn't want to be wounded or mutilated. She could never shoot herself, or jump off a building. But being dead was not unthinkable.