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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Jeanette Winterson quotes

British Novelist August 27, 1959

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If I want to say no, I will, but for the right reasons. If I want to say yes, I will, but for the right reasons. Leave the consequences. Leave the finale. Leave the grand statements. The simplicity of feeling should not be taxed. I can't work out what this will cost or what either of us owe. The admission charge is never on the door, but you are open and I want to enter. Let me in. You do. Jeanette Winterson
It is no use trying to assume again the state of innocence and acceptance of the animal or the child. This time it has to be conscious. To circle about in such gladness as his, is the effort of a whole lifetime. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time...."
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so how could we take it back without asking? 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: "What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom..."
What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning? Jeanette Winterson
Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I’m free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeon’s wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know. Jeanette Winterson
I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds. Jeanette Winterson
Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world. Jeanette Winterson
Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body. Your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before I met you, I relied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm, you play upon me,... 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
Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone’s little home. Jeanette Winterson
They sounded like intestines, only on the outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not being able to go to church. Horrid. Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake..."
Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. Jeanette Winterson
I have shouted to God and the Virgin, but they have not shouted back and I'm not interested in the still small voice. Surely a god can meet passion with passion? Jeanette Winterson
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea. Or the people who found Atlantis. Jeanette Winterson

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