Sa-Rah Williams’s Reviews > White Oleander > Status Update

"To be more mothers daughter again. I played with the idea like a child with a blanket, running ti between my fingers. To be lost in the tide of her music again. It was an idea more seductive than any man. Was it really too late for childhood, to crawl back into the crucible, to dissolve into the fire, to rise without memory? (Fitch 387)

"How clear it was without my mother behind my eyes. I was re-born a siamese twin who had finally been separated from its hatred, cumbersome double. I woke early, expectant as a small child, to a world washed clean of my mother's poisonous fog, her milky miasmas.

"You think you cannot bear losing that weakling, Claire. Remember, there's only one virtue, Astrid. The Romans were right. One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.
Mother"

This quote had me thinking that we can and have the ability to bear alot but sometimes the burden of problems in a persos life is too great

"School sucks. Why don't you blow it off? Rena doesn't care." I shrugged. "I've only got one more semester," I said. But truthfully, I was afraid to have one less thing in my life." This quote made me think about how when your goal is completed sometimes you feel meaningless and that you don't have any purpose until you make a new one and that when things are ending and you don't want it to be over it leaves you sad.

“Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want.” (Fitch)

"If you were going to kill yourself how would you do it?... I'd gas myself. That's the way. They say it's just like going to sleep." (Fitch 231)

This quote made me think that most of the time people just want to go away not live anymore and it's not for attention or for protest it's because they can't handle the situation they're in and the cards they were dealt. They want to feel no pain while they go and fade away