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Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Total quotes: 16
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Tagged: Books
“To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Tagged: emotions, Happiness, Life
“I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Tagged: Love, Longing
“I think we are worlds compressed into human form.”
— Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate
Tagged: Human Existence, Complex Thoughts
“Why is the measure of love loss?”
— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
Tagged: Love, Loss
“We were not lovers,
we were love.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Tagged: Love, Lovers
“Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love’s hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Tagged: Love, Poetry, strength, Powerful
“Human beings often display emotion they do not feel. And they often feel emotion they do not display. That’s a description of me all right. I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn’t matter at all.”
— Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods
Tagged: Complexity, Human Nature, Pretension, Emotion
“Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. Do the dead find peace beyond the rattle of the world? What peace is there for us whose best love cannot return them even for a day?”
— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
Tagged: Existentialism, Difficult Questions, Life After Death, Unrequited Love, human
“I had a steady heart before I met you, I relied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm, you play upon me, drumming me taut.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Love & Relationships
“What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Powerbook
Tagged: Sex, Love, Taboo, H4D-20
“Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Tagged: ENFP, Change, Movement, Moving On, Places
“Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
Tagged: Destiny, Fate, Choices
“I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (Myths, The)
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Rejection, walk away
“I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping
Tagged: Destiny, Choices, Decisions
“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 come home. I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping
Tagged: Free Spirit, Self-Contradictory, ENFP, Wild, Tame, Intensity
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