1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

History has had you – and me too. My hand has brushed against yours for centuries.

I don’t own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don’t want to drown. My head is my heart’s lifebelt.

When I hold you in this night-soaked bed it is courage for the day I seek. Courage that when the light comes I will turn towards it. It couldn’t be simpler. It couldn’t be harder. In this little night-covered world with you, I hope to find what I long for; a clue, a map, a bird flying south, and when the light comes we will get dressed together and go.

I have come so far so fast that I haven’t had time to ask whether or not this is where I want to be.

Confidence and superiority: It’s the usual fundamentalist stuff: I’ve got the truth, and you haven’t.

In the sky, Planet Moon is 239,000 miles away. That’s not far when you remember that the sun is 93 million miles away.

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling – usually that’s a terror of our own unconscious processes.

As a writer, if you’re prepared to work from your own wound, you’re allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

The missingness of the missing. We know what that feels like. Every endeavor, every kiss, every stab in the heart, every letter home, every leaving, is a ransack of what’s in front of us in the service of what’s lost.