Quotes from Jeanette Winterson

I ate, I drank, I wondered why love is so hard and life is so short. I went to sleep.

I had better come clean now and say that I do not believe that art (all art) and beauty are ever separate, nor do I believe that either art or beauty are optional in a sane society.

Die Wahrheit aber ist, dieses Wäre ist immer nur eine Erfindung. Ich kann nur die Entscheidungen treffen, die ich treffe, warum sich also quälen mit dem, was gewesen wäre, wenn ich doch nur bewältigen kann, was war? Die Wäre-Inseln sind für den Menschen unbewohnbar.

He was always a little boy, and I am upset that I didn't look after him, upset there are so many kids who never get looked after, and so they can't grow up. They can get older, but they can't grow up. That takes love. If you are lucky the love will come later. If you are lucky you won't hit love in the face.

Cuando cayó la noche, vio la luz del faro del cabo de la Ira; solo hacía una semana que estaba encendida, pero estaba encendida, y supo que si se convertía a sí mismo en la historia de la luz, quizá se salvaría.

I'm telling you stories. Trust me. I

I decided to apply to read English at the University of Oxford because it was the most impossible thing I could do.

you act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it out by trying to do to others what has been done to you.

The trouble with books is that you don't know what's in them 'till is too late

Be confident even in your mistakes. In Allah there is no wrong road. There is only the road you must travel.

Stop thinking, she said. The more you think, the faster you cut your own throat.

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't.

Should be great. But when have things ever worked out great? In the human dream?

Is it failure for morning to become afternoon?

Annem elimin kitaba deÄŸmesini istemiyordu.Kitaplar?n içine bal?klama dalaca??m akl?na bile gelmedi-saklanmak için kendimi onlara hapsedeceÄŸim de.

That's why he hates him so much. He disappointed him. Passion does not take disappointment well. What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

Optimal's logo reads: The Future Is Now. That annoys me because if the future is now, where is the present?

Free will depends on being stronger than the moment that traps you.

This voyage of ours is lonely--the more so if we find a companion, only to suffer the bitterest loss. In truth we are alone.

When a woman alone is no longer of any interest to the opposite sex, she is only visible where she has some purpose.

I don't care about the facts, Domino, I care about how I feel. How I feel will change, I want to remember that.

We're going to wake up one morning and the world won't be the same. That morning could be any morning, I say. It could be climate breakdown. It could be nuclear. It could be Trump or Bolsonaro. It could be The Handmaid's Tale.

The maze. Find your own way through and you shall win your heart's desire. Fail and you will wander for ever in these unforgiving walls.

If the demons lie within they travel with you.