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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