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Janet Fitch Quotes about Pain

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Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.

Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.

Janet Fitch
Dream, Pain, Sick
Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.111, Hachette UK

One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.

Janet Fitch
Pain, Bears
Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to carry it away. What we needed was someone who bled...mother's big enough, wide enough for us to hide in...mother's who would breathe for us when we could not breathe anymore, who would fight for us, who would kill for us, die for us.

Janet Fitch
Mother, Pain, Real

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

Janet Fitch
Pain, Relief, Want
Janet Fitch (2013). “Paint It Black”, p.106, Hachette UK

In a train...smash. In his arm her last...breath.' He had loved her. But he hated himself more. Such suffering, so much pain. And he thought it made him hateful. As if suffering was shameful, disgusting, as if pain were a crime. Who can judge another man's suffering?

Janet Fitch
Pain, Men, Judging

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