Mae

“Women always put men first. That’s how everything got so screwed up.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Never apologize, never explain.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Always learn poems by heart,” she said. “They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they’ll make your soul impervious to the world’s soft decay.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander