1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

When love is unreliable and you are a child, you assume that it is the nature of love -- its quality -- to be unreliable. Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning the love you get is the love that sets.

Mrs. Winterson did not have a soothing personality. Ask for reassurance and it would never come. I never asked her if she loved me. She loved me on those days when she was able to love. I really believe that is the best she could do.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together.Forgiveness unblocks the future." (p.225)

The journey is about coming home....There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. It is a blood-trail." (p. 220,222)

A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.

Something as straightforward as a difference could lead to something as complex as a breakdown.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

History is a madman's museum.