“Perceval spends twenty years wandering in the woods, looking for the thing he had found, that was given to him, that seemed… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Memories separated in time are often recalled side by side-there's an emotional connection that has nothing to do with the diary dates… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“How could I not go on talking to you? How could I not expect to see you when it's the end of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The fossil record is always there, whether or not you discover it. The brittle ghosts of the past. Memory is not like… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“People have never had a problem disposing of the past when it gets too difficult. Flesh will burn, photos will burn, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The physical memory blunders through the doors the mind has tried to seal. ... Wisdom says forget, the body howls.” — 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
