All Jeanette Winterson Quotes
- When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with… Alive
- He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out… Been
- And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards… Accounts
- Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine. Bottle
- She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the… Beautiful
- 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. If… Bad
- I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have… Behind
- There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult… Affection
- The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb… Alive
- I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married… Broke
- When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. Beyond
- Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. Desire
- Their throats were bare for God. Bare
- Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside… Beside
- When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun. Bleeds
- Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. Blue
- I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something… All
- Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story. Change
- ..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil. Change
- Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light. Become Light
- I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong.… Beneath
- To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown. Adjusted
- Trust me, I'm telling you stories. Inspirational
- Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead. Ahead
- Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too… Accustomed