“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
“On more than one occasion I have been ready to abandon my whole life for love. To alter everything that makes sense… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her… — 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
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
“I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“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
“How long before the shouting starts? How long before the tears and the accusations and the pain? That specific stone n the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He scarred her arm...but she did not care because she loved him and she knew that love leaves a wound that leaves… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“You said, ‘Why do I frighten you?’ Frighten me? Yes you do frighten me. You act as though we will be together… — 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
