Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

Look up. This is the season of shooting stars. Light, two thousand years old, still dazzling. Let me see your face. Your face lit up by twenty centuries.

Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue.

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its spit under the fire of the sun.

...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding to fully exist.

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.