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White Oleander (1999)
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This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away.
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I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.
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To make films, you have to have boundless energy; you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I'm really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.
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What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?
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We parked in back and walked down the stairs with their polished brass railings, past the old-fashioned kitchen. We could see the chefs cooking. It smelled like stew, or meat loaf, the way time should smell, solid and nourishing.
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Many women get involved with a man that you pretty much know isn't suitable and you're kind of breaking your rules, but he's attractive in some unknown way. And then he doesn't even realize what a sacrifice you're making by being with him and he dumps you!
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We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.
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Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.
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Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.
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I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't.
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I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the paint on new cars and beat up well-tended children. It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
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This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.
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One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
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Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.
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I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
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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.
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The night crackled... Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends.
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Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.
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How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?
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I could hear the icy winds of Sweden, but he didn't seem to feel the chill.
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I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind. It was a secret wanting, like a song I couldn't stop humming, or loving someone I could never have. No matter where I went, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.
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The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.
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And I thought, there was no God, there was only what you wanted.
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I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.
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Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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Janet Fitch
Born:
November 9, 1955
(age 68)
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