We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“You don't fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like falling through space. It’s like you jump off… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I… — 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
“As it is, I can't settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know that love… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I love her." "Then you do not love the Lord." "Yes, I love both of them." "You cannot." "I do.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“What is there to say about love ? You could sweep up all the words and stack them in the gutter and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It is true that on bright days we are happy. That is true because the sun on the eyelids effects chemical changes… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I have written about love obsessively, forensically, and I know/knew it as the highest value. I loved God of course, in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance. — 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… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but… — 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
