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I have a head for heights it’s true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn’t change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
Going back after a long time will make you made, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you’ve lost forever. There is only now (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what’s in it until it’s too late! (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
I return to problems I can’t solve, not because I am an idiot, but because the real problems can’t be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
What can I tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets? (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning? (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)
I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not (Jeanette Winterson Quotes)