Jeanette Winterson quotes - page 2

I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end. (Jeanette Winterson)
Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be. View quote
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There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms. View quote
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Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space. View quote
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Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. View quote
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Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully. View quote
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I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. View quote
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In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance. View quote
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Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. View quote
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What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy? View quote
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do it from the heart or not at all. (Jeanette Winterson)
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. View quote
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I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice. View quote
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I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free. View quote
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I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close. View quote
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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. View quote
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Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone. View quote
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By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's. View quote
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Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally. View quote
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Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. View quote
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I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line. (Jeanette Winterson)
I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had. View quote
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I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject. View quote
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The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive. View quote
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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. View quote
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