All Jeanette Winterson Quotes
- I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what… Assume
- I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close. Close
- I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding.… Beginning
- I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject. Good
- i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of… Believe
- The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so… Ancients
- What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like… Choices
- We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes. Daylight
- Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough. Child
- This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in. Break
- We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being… All
- Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin-sized world? A head… Adventure
- You said, 'I'm going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.' I've hidden these words in the lining… Any
- You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long… Alone
- I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial. Denial
- I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes… Afternoon
- I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them. Cut
- It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is. Funny
- The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body. Always Back
- In this life, you have to be your own hero. Hero
- I remember once walking out hand in hand with a boy I knew, and it was summer, and suddenly before us was a field of… Boy
- I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in… Afternoon
- I would eat my way into perdition to taste you. Eat
- In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one. Become One
- You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long… Hear