Jeanette Winterson quotes

What you risk reveals what you value. (Jeanette Winterson)
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
Jeanette Winterson
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?
Jeanette Winterson
No safety without risk, and what you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette Winterson
Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.
Jeanette Winterson
But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
Jeanette Winterson
To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.
Jeanette Winterson
Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.
Jeanette Winterson
Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.
Jeanette Winterson
Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.
Jeanette Winterson
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)
Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.
Jeanette Winterson
Why is the measure of love... loss? pg.9.
Jeanette Winterson
Trust me, I'm telling you stories.... I can change the story. I am the story.
Jeanette Winterson
When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.
Jeanette Winterson
A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?
Jeanette Winterson
We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.
Jeanette Winterson
Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.
Jeanette Winterson
.. to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.
Jeanette Winterson
You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?
Jeanette Winterson
Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough. (Jeanette Winterson)
Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.
Jeanette Winterson
There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies.
Jeanette Winterson
It is not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between them.
Jeanette Winterson
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