Janet Fitch Oleanders Quotations

It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind.

We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.