1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

He liked me because I am short. I flatter myself. He did not dislike me. He liked no one except Josephine and he liked her the way he liked chicken.

How else could it be with such consuming hair?

Viitorul, prezentul și trecutul nu există decât în mintea noastră, iar de la depărtare marginile li se micșorează și li se încețoșează precum granițele unor țări dușmane, văzute dintr-un oras plutitor, tocmai de pe boltă.

Biz hissedecek şekilde tasarlarımlanıp inşa edildik, dolayısıyla hiçbir zihinsel halimiz, hiçbir düşüncemiz yoktur ki aynı zamanda bir duygu durumu olmasın. Hiçbirimiz aşırı, kaldırabileceğimizden fazla hissetmeyiz, ancak bazılarımız mümkün olduğunca az hissedebilmek için elinden geleni yapar.

I don't want to conquer you; I just want to climb you.

I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of light power- to break the gravitational pull. How many of us ever get free of our orbit? We tease ourselves with fancy notions of free will and self-help courses that direct our lives. We believe we can be our own miracles, and just a lottery win or Mr.right will make the world new.

Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?