I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them. — 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
What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy? — 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
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
“I will come for you. Roll my strength into a ball for you. Throw myself across chance for you. I will be… — 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
Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way. — 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
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
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
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
“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
“He did not say so, but the words behind the words told me that he would rather have launched me into a… — 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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 have learned what love costs. I never count it but I know what it costs.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising. — 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 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“He turned away and I turned to him in vivid heat to look on the sun-dried world. The groves and towers were gone. The… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
