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“Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.”
Jeanette Winterson livre The Passion
Variante: every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.
Source: The Passion
“Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.”
Jeanette Winterson livre Lighthousekeeping
Source: Lighthousekeeping
“The free man never thinks of escape.”
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 livre The Passion
Source: The Passion
Jeanette Winterson livre Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson livre 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 livre Sexing the Cherry
Source: Sexing the Cherry
“If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.”
Jeanette Winterson livre The Passion
Source: The Passion
“Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.”
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 livre Sexing the Cherry
Source: Sexing the Cherry
Jeanette Winterson livre Gut Symmetries
Gut Symmetries (1997)
Contexte: 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.
Jeanette Winterson livre 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.”
Source: Written on the Body
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 livre The Passion
Source: The Passion
Jeanette Winterson livre Lighthousekeeping
Source: Lighthousekeeping
“We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.”
Jeanette Winterson livre Lighthousekeeping
Source: Lighthousekeeping
Jeanette Winterson livre Lighthousekeeping
Source: Lighthousekeeping
“It is not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between them.”
Jeanette Winterson livre Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Variante: 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