Janet Fitch Quotes about Water

A fish has no concept of water.

Water, Fishes, Concepts

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

Heart, Water, Poetry

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

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

Janet Fitch

People, Water, Desire

Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.88, Hachette UK

I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I liked it when my mother shaped me this way. I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.

Janet Fitch

Mother, Hands, Water

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