# Quote — Janet Fitch, White Oleander

> People were just like that. We couldn't even see each other, just the shadows moving, pushed by unseen winds.

- Author: [Janet Fitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/janet-fitch.md)
- Book: [White Oleander](https://www.leafyquotes.com/janet-fitch/white-oleander.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Janet_Fitch#White_Oleander_(1999)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/janet-fitch/white-oleander/people-were-just

## More from this book

> I had already seen more of the world, its beauty and misery and sheer surprise, than they could hope or fear to perceive.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/janet-fitch/white-oleander/i-had-already.md)

> This was an artist's stare, attentive to detail, taking in the truth without preconceptions. It was a stare that didn't turn away when I stared back, but was startled to find itself returned.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/janet-fitch/white-oleander/this-was-an-artists.md)

> Without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life. It wasn't like I didn't know where all this remembering got you, all that hunger for beauty and astonishing cruelty and ever-present-loss.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/janet-fitch/white-oleander/without-my-wounds.md)