1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

What's the big deal? Snow's just rain that's been left out in the cold.

It is snowing. In the English language we do not know anything about the 'it' that is snowing. It might be God. Maybe not. Anyway. It. Is. Snowing.

In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

If I am honest I will admit that I have always wanted to avoid love. Yes give me romance, give me sex, give me fights, give me all the parts of love but not the simple single word which is so complex and demands the best of me this hour this minute this forever.

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

I had been agitating for a pet for some time. In my head I had a white rabbit called Ezra who bit people who ignored me. Ezra's pelt was as white as the soul in heaven but his heart was black...

the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance.

It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change. Of course people mutilate and modify, but these are fallen powers, and to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.