1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you’re getting old.

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets would be self-destructive...I had no idea that you could like your parents or that they could love you enough to let you be yourself.

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.

There are only three possible endings —aren't there? — to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That’s it. All stories end like that.

What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?

In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.'Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest.Feel for yourself.

Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.