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Your Own Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.
- What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of…
- I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than…
- Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for…
- There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of…
- That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
- In this life, you have to be your own hero.
- In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you…
- He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them…
- Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name…
- I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is…
- I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your…
- your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and…
- Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
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