Thursday, April 21, 2011

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

I don’t know how to express that being with someone so dangerous was the last time that I felt safe.” -Astrid









"Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best you can do is know yourself... know what you want." -Ingrid


"Everybody asks why I started at the end and worked back to the beginning. The reason is simple-I couldn’t understand the beginning until I had reached the end. There were too many pieces of the puzzle missing, too much you would never tell.” -Astrid


She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.” -Astrid
"The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart." -Astrid
in a perverse way, i was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. what was the point in just being hurt on the inside? i thought of the girl with the scar tattoos at the crenshaw group home. she was right, it should bloody well show.” -Astrid

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