--- title: "4 Day life Quotes By Jeanette Winterson" description: "4 Day life quotes by Jeanette Winterson. Plus more from Jeanette Winterson and more Day life sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/033/jeanette-winterson-166_communication_lovers-are-not-at-their-best-when-it-mat_451275.png" --- > [“Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/lovers-are-not-at-their-best-when-it-matters-mouths-dry-up-palms/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/033/jeanette-winterson-166_communication_lovers-are-not-at-their-best-when-it-mat_451275.png) > [“How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/how-is-it-that-one-day-life-is-orderly-and-you-are-content-a-little/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27d/jeanette-winterson-166_day-life_how-is-it-that-one-day-life-is-orderly-a_1193631.png) > [“How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/how-is-it-that-one-day-life-is-orderly-and-you-are-content-a-little-2/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce4/jeanette-winterson-166_cynical_how-is-it-that-one-day-life-is-orderly-a_1482966.png) > [Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/perhaps-all-romance-is-like-that-not-a-contract-between-equal-parties/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3c/jeanette-winterson-166_colour_perhaps-all-romance-is-like-that-not-a-c_1676188.png) ## Other authors on Day life ## More by Jeanette Winterson > [“After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/after-nine-nights-must-come-ten-and-every-desperate-meeting-only/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) > [You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/you-never-give-away-your-heart-you-lend-it-from-time-to-time-if-it/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) > [I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/i-have-found-that-i-am-not-a-space-where-people-want-to-live-at-least/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/yes-just-pass-me-my-leg-will-you-it-s-on-top-of-the-wardrobe-where-he/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) > [Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/every-second-the-universe-divides-into-possibilities-and-most-of/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) > [You are a pool of clear water where the light plays](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/you-are-a-pool-of-clear-water-where-the-light-plays/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/it-s-the-cliches-that-cause-the-trouble-a-precise-emotion-seeks-a/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) > [What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/what-would-it-have-meant-to-be-happy-what-would-it-have-meant-if/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) > [“Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/mrs-ratlow-was-a-widow-and-she-was-head-of-english-but-she-still-did/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) > [“I shall have nowt to talk to now the baby is boiled.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/i-shall-have-nowt-to-talk-to-now-the-baby-is-boiled/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/what-art-does-is-to-coax-us-away-from-the-mechanical-and-towards-the/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) > [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/happy-valentines-day-to-those-who-have-found-love-in-whatever-shape/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) > [“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/it-took-me-a-long-time-to-realise-that-there-are-two-kinds-of-writing/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) > [A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/a-curse-on-this-game-how-can-you-stick-at-a-game-when-the-rules-keep/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/he-turned-away-and-i-turned-to-him-in-vivid-heat-to-look-on-the-sun/) [Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/day-life/jeanette-winterson/#itemlist", "name": "4 Day life Quotes By Jeanette Winterson", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Lovers are not at their best when it matters. 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