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“Why is the measure of love… loss? pg.9”

Jeanette Winterson

Written on the Body (1992)
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.”

Jeanette Winterson

Source: The World and Other Places: Stories

“Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave”

Jeanette Winterson

“Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.”

Jeanette Winterson

Source: Written on the Body

“They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?”

Jeanette Winterson

“do it from the heart or not at all.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

“I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“No safety without risk, and what you risk reveals what you value.”

Jeanette Winterson

Sexing the Cherry (1989)
Variant: What you risk reveals what you value. (p.91)
Source: Written on the Body

“Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

“Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.”

Jeanette Winterson

Source: Written on the Body

“I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

“There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

“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 what reality is, so that I can touch it.”

Jeanette Winterson

“But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)