“It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. If what I feel is not precise than… — 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
Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He would love her if she were a wolf that tore out his heart. And he wondered what that said about love.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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
Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Where did love begin? What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there… — 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
“You'll get over it...' It's the cliches that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“True art, when it happens to us, challenges the 'I' that we are. A love-parallel would be just; falling in love challenges… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“There is talk in the village that there is more in these sewers than sewerage. Yes, I say, Yes. But not only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“They say this city can absorb anyone. It does seem that every nationality is here in some part. There are dreamers and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I love you." "You've loved other people but you still left them." "It's not that simple." "I don't want to be another… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss the company of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He was always a little boy, and I am upset that I didn't look after him, upset that there are so many… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next… — 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
“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
