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Writers are often exiles, outsiders, runaways and castaways. — Jeanette Winterson

Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. — Jeanette Winterson

Can anyone deny that we are haunted? What is it that crouches under the myths we have made? Always the physical presence of something split off. — Jeanette Winterson

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul. — Jeanette Winterson

Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person. — Jeanette Winterson

A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. — Jeanette Winterson

The moment has been waiting the way the top step of the stairs waits for the sleepwalker. — Jeanette Winterson

I was not so sure but too tired and too relieved to go further that night. To reach one another again had been far enough. — Jeanette Winterson

I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking. — Jeanette Winterson

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. — Jeanette Winterson

We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel. — Jeanette Winterson

I decided to apply to read English at the University of Oxford because it was the most impossible thing I could do. — Jeanette Winterson

When you are a solitary kid you find an imaginary friend. — Jeanette Winterson

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad. — Jeanette Winterson

The hard-bound space hides the vulnerable self. — Jeanette Winterson

It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is. — Jeanette Winterson

It takes much longer to leave the psychic place than the physical place. (p.120) — Jeanette Winterson

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick. — Jeanette Winterson

Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions? — Jeanette Winterson

I need the dark places to get outside of common sense — Jeanette Winterson

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read. — Jeanette Winterson

What you think is the heart might well be another organ. — Jeanette Winterson

There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit. — Jeanette Winterson

I thought of my often-dream where Time poured the fishes into the sky and the sky was full of star fish; stella maris of the upper air. — Jeanette Winterson

You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue. — Jeanette Winterson

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead. — Jeanette Winterson

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy. — Jeanette Winterson

There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance. — Jeanette Winterson

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. — Jeanette Winterson

Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible. — Jeanette Winterson