All Jeanette Winterson Quotes
- If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going. All
- I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture… Been
- I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am.… All
- I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit… Bits
- To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead. Dead
- We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't. Bodies
- August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade. Arguing
- In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. Campfire
- If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes.… Alive
- She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some… All
- There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on… Alive
- It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Hear
- ...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. Inspirational
- Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is… All
- If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found. Demon
- How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Any
- What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to… Come Home
- It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the… Accept
- She was a monster, but she was my monster. Funny
- I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not… Alternative
- Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the… Big
- Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I… Accounts
- I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and… Aloneness
- Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do… Absurdity
- This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to? Fit