The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The fatal combination of indulgence without feeling disgusts me. Strange to be both greedy and dead. For myself, I prefer to hold… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“When I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light. — 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
When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The mystics and the churchmen talk about throwing off his body and its desires, being no longer a slave to the flesh.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few… — 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
