How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.
Janet FitchA clichรฉ is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
Janet FitchMy father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?"
Janet Fitch