“I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.”

— Jeanette Winterson, book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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English writer 1959

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