Love Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

“We were not lovers, we were love.”

— Jeanette Winterson

I have no idea what happens next

— Jeanette Winterson

Why is the measure of love loss?

— Jeanette Winterson

As your lover describes you, so you are.

— Jeanette Winterson

Trust your creativity.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Passion out of passion's obstacles.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Love is as strong as death.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Only the impossible is worth the effort.

— Jeanette Winterson

What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

— Jeanette Winterson

In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.

— Jeanette Winterson

We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.

— Jeanette Winterson

Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.

— Jeanette Winterson

“I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.”

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I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

— Jeanette Winterson

“You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?”

— Jeanette Winterson

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

— Jeanette Winterson

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind…

— Jeanette Winterson

What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?

— Jeanette Winterson

August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.

— Jeanette Winterson

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with…

— Jeanette Winterson

Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I love you." "You've loved other people but you still left them." "It's not that simple." "I don't want to be another…

— Jeanette Winterson

This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way…

— Jeanette Winterson

There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming…

— Jeanette Winterson

“He did not say so, but the words behind the words told me that he would rather have launched me into a…

— Jeanette Winterson

The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it’s the most important thing in the world. I write about…

— Jeanette Winterson

I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as…

— Jeanette Winterson

“He was always a little boy, and I am upset that I didn't look after him, upset that there are so many…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I was angry. Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. That…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies. Somewhere it is still in the…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart…

— Jeanette Winterson

“They say this city can absorb anyone. It does seem that every nationality is here in some part. There are dreamers and…

— Jeanette Winterson

“But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss the company of…

— Jeanette Winterson

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No…

— Jeanette Winterson

“You said, ‘I’m going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.’ I’ve hidden those words…

— Jeanette Winterson

“When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my…

— Jeanette Winterson