More quotes by Janet Fitch, White Oleander

"And if there is no god?You act as if there is, and it's the same thing."
"What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?"
"Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. 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."
"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."
"The phoenix must burn to emerge."