“Whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now. — 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
“every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Time is a great deadener; people forget, get bored, grow old, go away.” — 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
“Lonely cries, and she was lonely, not for friends but for a time that hadn't been violated.” — 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
“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
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I was angry. Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“A sign of the times. But the times has so many signs that if we read them all we'd die of heartbreak.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It was very bad for me that my deafness happened at around the same time as I discovered my clitoris.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“For the first time in months I felt my body slacken. I had been carrying myself like a gun, cocked, alert, ready… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep… — 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
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
She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It… — 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
Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since… — 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
“Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the… — 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
“Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The more I read, the more I felt connected across time to other lives and deeper sympathies. I felt less isolated. I… — 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
“What sex are you?” Doesn’t matter does it? After all that’s your problem.” If I keep you, what will happen?” You’ll have… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS) — 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
I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Most kids grow up leaving something out for Santa at Christmas time when he comes down the chimney. I used to make… — 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
“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
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
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“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… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
