All Jeanette Winterson Quotes
- You are a pool of clear water where the light plays Clear
- Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS) Begin
- She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared… Boat
- A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play… Alice
- There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of… All
- As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the… Apart
- Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside… Arrange
- Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives… Acknowledge
- Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past… Agreed
- Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. Beloved
- It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields… Another Place
- In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence… Better
- Going back after a long time will make you made, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will… Accuse
- I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings. Funny
- When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No one can legislate… Belongs
- I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink… Beige
- Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in… Break
- There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain. Alter
- Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to… Admire
- Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now. Every Moment
- Slightest accidents open up new worlds. Accidents
- It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange… Alphabet
- I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my… Death
- Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As… All
- I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this… Able