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Too Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.
- What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy…
- When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong…
- Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over, find out what's…
- I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a…
- There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is…
- I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
- Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel.…
- 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…
- Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to…
- Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!
- Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend…
- People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can…
- 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…
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