Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“When love is unreliable and you are a child, you assume that it is the nature of love -- its quality --… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let… — 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
Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“We don’t know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo sapiens. Who’s kidding whom?” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how… — 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
..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I will set you in the sky and name you. I will hide you in the earth like treasure.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“She had other favourite lines. Our gas oven blew up. The repairman came out and said he didn't like the look of… — 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
