Jeanette Winterson Quotes

What happened to her, what goes on happening to her, does not account for her work. - Jeanette Winterson

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. - Jeanette Winterson

Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo Sapiens. Who's kidding whom? - Jeanette Winterson

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it. - Jeanette Winterson

To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever...The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes...This hole that you have is the shape of the one you lost, no one else can fit it. - Jeanette Winterson

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. - Jeanette Winterson

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to? - Jeanette Winterson

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? - Jeanette Winterson

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. - Jeanette Winterson

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