Jeanette Winterson citations

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“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.”

“all the inevitable dying that comes with change. theres no choice that doesnt mean a loss.”

“there are different types of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.”

“i miss the company of someone utterly loyal”

“the imprint of another life, and although you can never have that life, your fingers trace the space where it might have been, and your fingers learn a kind of braille.”

“i told myself as hero like any shipwreck story. it was a shipwreck, and me thrown on the coastline of humankind, and finding it not so hamna, and rarely kind.”