Jeanette Winterson quotes - page 6

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)
Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all. View quote
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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. View quote
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Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour. View quote
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Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. View quote
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There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance. View quote
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He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it. View quote
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You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It's the playing that's irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value. View quote
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It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do. View quote
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It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment. View quote
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As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them. (Jeanette Winterson)
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. View quote
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There are more than two chances– many more. I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance. View quote
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The curious are always in some danger. View quote
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Know thyself,' said Socrates. Know thyself,' said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out. View quote
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When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in. View quote
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I would eat my way into perdition to taste you. View quote
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To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love. View quote
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Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse. View quote
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Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet. View quote
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As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us. (Jeanette Winterson)
If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war. View quote
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Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy. View quote
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We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes. View quote
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Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me. View quote
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