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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

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British Novelist August 27, 1959

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You said, 'I'm going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.'I've hidden these words in the lining of my coat. I take them out like a jewel thief when no-one's watching. They haven't faded. Nothing about you has faded. You are still the colour of my blood. You are my blood. When I look in the mirror it's not my own face I see. Your body is twice. Once you once me. Can I be sure which is which? Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "He scarred her arm...but she did not care because she loved..."
He scarred her arm...but she did not care because she loved him and she knew that love leaves a wound that leaves a scar. Jeanette Winterson
Mrs Winterson objected to what I had put in, but it seemed to me that what I had left out was the story's silent twin. There are so many things we can't say, because they are too painful. Stories are compensatory. The world is unfair, unjust, unknowable, out of control. Mrs Winterson would have preferred it if I had been silent. I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. He or she has to learn to forgive him or herself. Jeanette Winterson
The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I asked him why he was a priest, and he said if you have to..."
I asked him why he was a priest, and he said if you have to work for anyone, an absentee boss is best. Jeanette Winterson
Perceval spends twenty years wandering in the woods, looking for the thing he had found, that was given to him, that seemed so easy, that was not. Later, when things were difficult for me with my work and I felt that I had lost or turned away from something I couldn't even identify, it was the Perceval story that gave me hope. There might be a second chance...in fact, there were more than two chances-many more. I know, after fifty years that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering,... Jeanette Winterson
I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. Jeanette Winterson
She was a bright disc in him that left him sun-spun. She was circular, light-turned, equinox-sprung. She was season and movement, but he had never seen her cold. In winter, her fire sank from the surface to below the surface, and warmed her great halls like the legend of the king who kept the sun in his hearth. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like..."
She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected. Jeanette Winterson
When Jordan was a baby he sat on top of me much as a fly rests on a hill of dung. And I nourished him as a hill of dung nourishes a fly, and when he had eaten his fill he left me. Jordan... I should have named him after a stagnant pond and then I could have kept him, but I named him after a river and in the flood-tide he slipped away. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut..."
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

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