“I love badly. That is too little or too much. I throw myself over an unsuitable cliff, only to reel back in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I've turned myself inside out to try and avoid what happened today. You affect me in ways I can't quantify or contain.… — 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
“The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it’s the most important thing in the world. I write about… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“There is a bit [in Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? ] where I talk about 'keeping the heart awake… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I may be cynical when I say that very rarely is the beloved more than a shaping spirit for the lover's dreams.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Physics, mathematics, music, painting, my politics, my love for you, my work, the star-dust of my body, the spirit that impels it,… — 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
It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror,… — 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, '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
We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Infatuation.First Love.Lust.My passion can be explained away.But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own.” — 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
