My heart Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

9 My heart quotes by Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson offers nine thoughts about the heart, each line shimmering with her distinctive lyrical style. Though brief, the collection feels richly textured.

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This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them…

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If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.

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your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen…

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Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,'…

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I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of…

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In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad?…

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Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have…

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St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than…

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When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned…

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You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back…

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I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.

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“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…

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Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than…

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You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

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“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…

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What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?

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“Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons,…

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“I shall have nowt to talk to now the baby is boiled.”

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“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…

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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.…

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“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes…

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A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and…

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“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…

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