Janet Fitch Quotes


I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay.


Citations

Fitch, Janet. White Oleander. Little, Brown and Company, 1999.

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Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch
  • Born: November 9, 1955
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Janet Fitch is most famously known as the author of the Oprah's Book Club novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002. She is a graduate of Reed College.