We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Much of what I have done is left unfinished- not because I left it too soon, not because I was lazy, but… — 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
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
“Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I go to the bathroom. All my life I have been an orphan and an only child. Now I come from a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“When Jordan was a baby he sat on top of me much as a fly rests on a hill of dung. And… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.” — 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
I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It is no use trying to assume again the state of innocence and acceptance of the animal or the child. This time… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“She had navigated her parents' hostile waters with a child's discretion, learning to keep from one the confessions of the other. Learning… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child;… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“When the children of Israel left Egypt, they were guided by the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“First there is the forest and inside the forest the clearing and inside the clearing the cabin and inside the cabin the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Adopted children are self invented because we have to be. There's an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in… — 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 Image
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 Image
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
