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“Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.”

Jeanette Winterson

“As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.”

Jeanette Winterson book Sexing the Cherry

Source: Sexing the Cherry

“There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies”

Jeanette Winterson

Source: Art and Lies

“The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.”

Jeanette Winterson

“Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.”

Jeanette Winterson

Source: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

“…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.”

Jeanette Winterson book Sexing the Cherry

Source: Sexing the Cherry

“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 a moment, it is enough”

Jeanette Winterson book Gut Symmetries

Gut Symmetries (1997)
Context: They were letting off fireworks down at the waterfront, the sky exploding in grenades of colour. 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 a moment - it is enough.

“There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.”

Jeanette Winterson

Source: Written on the Body

“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 your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own.”

Jeanette Winterson

Source: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

“I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

“Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.”

Jeanette Winterson

“I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.”

Jeanette Winterson book Lighthousekeeping

Source: Lighthousekeeping

“Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)”

Jeanette Winterson

“Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.”

Jeanette Winterson book Lighthousekeeping

Source: Lighthousekeeping

“Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.”

Jeanette Winterson

Source: Written on the Body

“It is not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between them.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Variant: It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit