Jeanette Winterson

You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#love

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#love #love

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

— Jeanette Winterson

#jeanette-winterson #reality #sexing-the-cherry #imagination

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS) ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#broken #change #change

You are a pool of clear water where the light plays ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#love #beauty

It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#change

I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#dreams

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#death #life #science #death

Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#darkness #light #sympathy #weakness #art

She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#love