Jeanette Winterson

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

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#growth #resolution #bravery

It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life

We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#inspirational

If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#love

Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#love

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit #walls #nature

A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life #poetry #life

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#fiction #poems #poetry #reading #imagination