1,104 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

Slightest accidents open up new worlds.

The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I.

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and weary,dragging home food, arms cut and scarred,that you saw yellow flowers, not knowing what you did, picked them because I love you? In the fossil record of our existence, there is no trace of love.You cannot find it held in the earth's crust, waiting to be discovered. The long bones of our ancestors show nothing of their hearts.

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings.

Knowing that books are something that is hidden, that almost has that alchemical quality to it. There is a secret society in here, and if you belong to it, you'll be able to transform your lead into gold. I have that rather magical sense about books - that they do, somehow, have special powers.

There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or loving you. Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance?