“Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies. Somewhere it is still in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think of love as a force of nature-as strog as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“My experience has been that times always ends. In theory, you are right, the quantum physicists are right, the religious and romantics… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He called me Jess because that is the name of the hood which restrains the falcon. I was his falcon. I hung… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The love we seek overrules human nature. It has a wildness in it and a glory that we want more than life… — 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
Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Winterson did not have a soothing personality. Ask for reassurance and it would never come. I never asked her if she… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. — 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
“I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets would be… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I was angry. Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.” — 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
