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“Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.”

Jeanette Winterson

Source: Art and Lies

“Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?”

Jeanette Winterson

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.”

Jeanette Winterson book Lighthousekeeping

Source: Lighthousekeeping

“Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose, you play.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion (1987), p.73

“I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.”

Jeanette Winterson

Source: Written on the Body

“Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.”

Jeanette Winterson

Source: Written on the Body

“To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her,
or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love”

Jeanette Winterson

Source: Powerbook

“Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion (1987)

“Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Variant: every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.
Source: The Passion

“The free man never thinks of escape.”

Jeanette Winterson

Source: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

“She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

“Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

“One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find.”

Jeanette Winterson

“I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.”

Jeanette Winterson

Source: Written on the Body

“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 your own trumpet.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit