“Death will be like that. We will be forever recognizing people we have never met.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, trauma and drama, don't matter a bit.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The line between life and death is a couple of inches at most. The width of a door that connects two rooms.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“After loss of Identity, the most potent modern terror, is loss of sexuality, or, as Descartes didn’t say, "I fuck therefore I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“You can't make sense of your passion for life in the face of death, you can only give up your passion. Only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo sapiens ["Strange… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“This is the city of uncertainty, where routes and faces look alike and are not. Death will be like that. We will… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“That night two lovers whispering under the lead canopy of the church were killed by their own passion. Their effusion of words,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“You had once asked me if I was afraid of death. I said I was afraid of not living. I don’t want… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Pulsar: a dying star spinning under its own exploding anarchic energy, like a lighthouse on speed. A star the size of a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“How could I not go on talking to you? How could I not expect to see you when it's the end of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“As it is, I can't settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know that love… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“You'll get over it...' It's the cliches that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“Yes. Just pass me my leg will you? It's on top of the wardrobe where he threw it, and I think my right arm… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. If what I feel is not precise than how should… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
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.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“He turned away and I turned to him in vivid heat to look on the sun-dried world. The groves and towers were gone. The… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
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