Jeanette WintersonI felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.372Sadness
Jeanette WintersonTo create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. ✨ Jeanette Winterson (2007). Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, p.46, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.351Time
Jeanette WintersonNaked is the best disguise.362Humor
Jeanette WintersonI know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, … ▶351LifeReading
Jeanette WintersonWhat I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spread the web of my hand until it caught against your throat. You asked me… ▶351Reading
Jeanette WintersonWherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea. ✨ Jeanette Winterson (2007). The Passion, p.44, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.362Love
Jeanette WintersonNow that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem. ✨ Jeanette Winterson (2013). Written On The Body, p.119, Random House351Truth
Jeanette WintersonLouise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to the cost. Now, I've done the sums ahead. I k… ▶352LifeReflectionTime
Jeanette WintersonI dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.374Death
Jeanette WintersonThey say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?352Truth
Jeanette WintersonWhat the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of who you are, you're the one who has to take control. And also, you'r… ▶352Life
Jeanette WintersonIn my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.374Reading
Jeanette WintersonHer butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints woul… ▶331LoveThought
Jeanette WintersonEarth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of time before time, she says little, and in a la… ▶364ReadingTime
Jeanette WintersonFor my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out em… ▶375HumanityThought
Jeanette WintersonI don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted. ✨ Jeanette Winterson (2007). Oranges Are Not the Only … ▶353Thought
Jeanette WintersonAs far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apar… ▶342Politics
Jeanette WintersonThere are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct … ▶331ReadingTruth
Jeanette WintersonAnd you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.364Reading
Jeanette WintersonI had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read … ▶364HumanityLifePolitics
Jeanette WintersonEveryone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception. ✨ Jeanette Winterson (2007). Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, p.161, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.332Thought
Jeanette WintersonShe said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. Sh… ▶376HopeLifeReading
Jeanette WintersonAcademics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.365LoveReading
Jeanette WintersonI believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.321HumanityReadingThought
Jeanette WintersonTwo things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a third: Art. The inv… ▶354HumanityLifeTime
Jeanette WintersonLove is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. ✨ Jeanette Winterson (2013). Written On The Body, p.78, Random House321Love
Jeanette WintersonThis hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?332Love
Jeanette WintersonAnd if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together in forty years, laughing at a faded photo of you impersonating … ▶321HumorTime
Jeanette WintersonLove demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the… ▶376Love
Jeanette WintersonI find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them. ✨ Jeanette Winterson (2006). Lighthousekeeping, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt376Truth
