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
“Your life flashes before you, flash, flash, because there's so little of it. I mean, what have you ever done that was… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say… — 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
“I knew clearly that I could not rebuild my life or put it back together in any way. I had no idea… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“We were to be the lightest of things, he and I, lifting each other up above the heaviness of life. If was… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where you want… — 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 is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I am not a fan of supermarkets and I hate shopping there, even for things I can't get elsewhere, like cat food… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“What you are pursuing is meaning -- a meaningful life. There's the hap -- the fate, the draw that is yours, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“You had once asked me if I was afraid of death. I said I was afraid of not living. I don’t want… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to-… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself. I was up to my chin when the shout came, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Life is fragmentary, and the pattern that creativity can offer is not one that is imposed, not something rigid, but rather something… — 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,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“She had been a career woman all her life. She noted there was no such thing as a career man. She had… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“She found that the whole world could be contained in one place because that place was herself. Nothing had prepared her for… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what… — 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
I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“You can't make sense of your passion for life in the face of death, you can only give up your passion. Only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
More than sex. More than money. You know, life is not endless is it? Cash, cars, cocaine, and girls. It's more than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together… — 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
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“About her life to come, when she'd have a mansion and no neighbors. All she ever wanted was for everyone to go… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Whelks are strange and comforting. They have no notion of community life and they breed very quietly. But they have a strong… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Life, we imagine, is familiar enough until we begin to tell it to another. Then, observe the wonder on their faces--sometimes it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin-sized… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“If you're a hero you can be an idiot, behave badly, ruin your personal life, have any number of mistresses and talk… — 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
