"White Oleander" Quotes
A young girl navigates through foster care and her tumultuous relationship with her mother after she is imprisoned for murder.
fiction | 446 pages | Published in 1999
Quotes
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.
For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops.
Fear of failure, it seems, is the root of every kind of success.
Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space.
That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those... of those about you.
I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now, and I decided that she could have them, but not me.
Better to have a living dog, than a dead lion.
A flower opens to fulfill its destiny.
The best painkiller is the truth.
The only way to hold onto joy is to make sure and share it.
