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First Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want,…
- When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The…
- You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world became a word.
- 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…
- What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few…
- Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will…
- Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to…
- Infatuation.First Love.Lust.My passion can be explained away.But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals
- Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away…
- 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…
- And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only…
- When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.
- The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all…
- No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's no reason to…
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