“Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of… — 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
“Woolf worried about the childlessness from time to time, and suffered from the imposed anxiety that she was not, unlike her friend… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Time is not constant and one minute is not the same length as another.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I read: This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy. I started to cry.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“There will be a future. We believe in our unreality too strongly to give it up.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It would not be the first time that Jove and Stella had covered the traces of where I began and where they… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Don't you ever think of going back?" Silly question. There are threads that help you find your way back, and there are… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Time has no meaning, space and place have no meaning, on this journey. All times can be inhabited, all places visited. In… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Every journey conceals another journey within its lines; the path not taken and the forgotten angle. These are the journeys I wish… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself. — 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
