“I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It is never too late to learn to love. But it is frightening.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I will come for you. Roll my strength into a ball for you. Throw myself across chance for you. I will be… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I love her." "Then you do not love the Lord." "Yes, I love both of them." "You cannot." "I do.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Where did love begin? What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It is true that on bright days we are happy. That is true because the sun on the eyelids effects chemical changes… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“What is there to say about love ? You could sweep up all the words and stack them in the gutter and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“When love is unreliable and you are a child, you assume that it is the nature of love -- its quality --… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“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 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
“What's left? Romance. Love's counterfeit free of charge to all. Fall into my arms and the world with its sorrows will shrink… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“True art, when it happens to us, challenges the 'I' that we are. A love-parallel would be just; falling in love challenges… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He called me Jess because that is the name of the hood which restrains the falcon. I was his falcon. I hung… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I have learned what love costs. I never count it but I know what it costs.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He would love her if she were a wolf that tore out his heart. And he wondered what that said about love.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves… — 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
