Janet Fitch Dark Quotations

I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.

here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out

When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past the mouth and the eyes, the architecture of the body, her fleshly masquerade. Other boys were happy enough to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained in the body's shadow theater. But Michael had to come backstage. He went down into the mines, into the dark, and brought up the gold, your new self, a better self. But what good was it if he was just going to leave her behind?

I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.

She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined thing.

This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and Joan Didion. Compression, saying as little as possible, making everything carry much more than is actually said. Conflict. Dialogue as part of an ongoing world, not just voices in a dark room. Never say the obvious. Skip the meet and greet.

I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.