Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to. Jeanette Winterson More Quotes by Jeanette Winterson More Quotes From Jeanette Winterson [Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. Jeanette Winterson medicine imagination reality It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed? Jeanette Winterson hero names inspirational Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Jeanette Winterson voice listening needs Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise. Jeanette Winterson language want lying If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war. Jeanette Winterson courage-to-love ifs war To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it. Jeanette Winterson risk-it luminous risk Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone. Jeanette Winterson clouds lying fall As your lover describes you, so you are. Jeanette Winterson self-fulfilling-prophecy lovers I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end. Jeanette Winterson new-beginnings different real Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story. Jeanette Winterson trust-me i-can stories Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like Braille. I like to keep my body rolled up away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, or tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book. Jeanette Winterson eye reading book Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally. Jeanette Winterson laughing people needs The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help. Jeanette Winterson buddhist god mother In this life, you have to be your own hero. Jeanette Winterson this-life hero Language is a finding place, not a hiding place. Jeanette Winterson hiding-place hiding language I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close. Jeanette Winterson imagination dream desire Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping. Jeanette Winterson mother book fall In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance. Jeanette Winterson another-chance shapes space It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide. Jeanette Winterson miracle matter thinking That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place. Jeanette Winterson powerful language literature
