“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
“You have a dress with a décolletage to emphasise your breasts. I suppose the cleavage is the proper focus but what I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.” — 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
“That night two lovers whispering under the lead canopy of the church were killed by their own passion. Their effusion of words,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel. — 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
To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have… — 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
St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“She arches her body like a cat on a stretch. She nuzzles her cunt into my face like a filly at the… — 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
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 make sense of your passion for life in the face of death, you can only give up your passion. Only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Hardship is a man-made device because man cannot exist without passion. Religion is somewhere between fear and sex.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to… — 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
