Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with…

Janet Fitch
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Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. ✨ Janet Fitch (2002). White Oleander, Large Print Press
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My loneliness tasted like pennies. ✨ Janet Fitch (2002). White Oleander, Large Print Press
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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 d … ▶
She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar. ✨ Janet Fitch (2002). White Oleander, Large Print Press
I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season. ✨ Janet Fitch (2013). White Oleander, p.82, Hachette UK

Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. ✨ Janet Fitch (2002). White Oleander, Large Print Press

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