Heart Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

“Don't mix your heart with your liver.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Language is what stops the heart exploding.

— Jeanette Winterson

If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.

— Jeanette Winterson

do it from the heart or not at all.

— Jeanette Winterson

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Jeanette Winterson

Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.

— Jeanette Winterson

It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took…

— Jeanette Winterson

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart…

— Jeanette Winterson

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the…

— Jeanette Winterson

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

— Jeanette Winterson

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take…

— Jeanette Winterson

There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Regalia Mason frightened her because she was very clever and almost kind sometimes, the way people who didn't care about you at…

— Jeanette Winterson

I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of…

— Jeanette Winterson

Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful…

— Jeanette Winterson

I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a…

— Jeanette Winterson

Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,'…

— Jeanette Winterson

your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen…

— Jeanette Winterson

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in…

— Jeanette Winterson

Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have…

— Jeanette Winterson

She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was…

— Jeanette Winterson

There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be…

— Jeanette Winterson

“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

No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's…

— Jeanette Winterson

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart…

— Jeanette Winterson

The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there,…

— 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

When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned…

— Jeanette Winterson

People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too…

— Jeanette Winterson

“He would love her if she were a wolf that tore out his heart. And he wondered what that said about love.”

— Jeanette Winterson

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them…

— Jeanette Winterson

“She found that the whole world could be contained in one place because that place was herself. Nothing had prepared her for…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Lonely cries, and she was lonely, not for friends but for a time that hadn't been violated.”

— Jeanette Winterson

To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure.…

— Jeanette Winterson

In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad?…

— Jeanette Winterson

Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of…

— Jeanette Winterson

St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a…

— Jeanette Winterson