All Jeanette Winterson Quotes
- She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do… Adopted
- Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing… Blowing
- One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the beginning of a… Beginning
- Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you. Help
- Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you… Battle
- By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's. Betrayal
- Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has… Agreed
- I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I… Afraid
- She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world. Awake
- I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it. Better
- Memory loss is one way of coping with damage. Coping
- We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the… Admit
- Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way. Child
- The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go… Built
- I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you. Cause
- I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped. Helped
- Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much… Blind
- 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
- I'm not a quitter. Quitter