Jeanette Winterson

Quotes

• “Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousn...”
• “What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to com...”
• “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not ...”
• “They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off o...”
• “However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires ...”
• “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not ...”
• “The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest...”
• “The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go ...”
• “Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.”
• “Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”
• “Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.”