Books Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough…

— Jeanette Winterson

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back…

— Jeanette Winterson

I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Yes. Just pass me my leg will you? It's on top of the wardrobe where he threw it, and I think my right arm…

— Jeanette Winterson

Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than…

— Jeanette Winterson

You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

— Jeanette Winterson

“It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. If what I feel is not precise than how should…

— Jeanette Winterson

What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?

— Jeanette Winterson

“Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I shall have nowt to talk to now the baby is boiled.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to…

— Jeanette Winterson

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.…

— Jeanette Winterson