Jeanette Winterson quotes - page 3

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling. (Jeanette Winterson)

Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don't give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it...

Jeanette Winterson

What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.

Jeanette Winterson

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

Jeanette Winterson

Don't lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone's little home.

Jeanette Winterson

When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.

Jeanette Winterson

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

Jeanette Winterson

Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

Jeanette Winterson

Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.

Jeanette Winterson

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

Jeanette Winterson

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. (Jeanette Winterson)

She was a monster, but she was my monster.

Jeanette Winterson

I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.

Jeanette Winterson

No emotion is the final one.

Jeanette Winterson

Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?

Jeanette Winterson

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

Jeanette Winterson

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

Jeanette Winterson

I didn't want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it's rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.

Jeanette Winterson

Don't you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn't the mirror hostile enough?

Jeanette Winterson

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

You are a pool of clear water where the light plays. (Jeanette Winterson)

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

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

Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.

Jeanette Winterson

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

Jeanette Winterson

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