Quotes from Jeanette Winterson

To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

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

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

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

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

You are still the colour of my blood. You are my blood. When I look in the mirror it's not my own face I see. Your body is twice. Once you once me. Can I be sure which is which?

Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?

I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.

August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.

Be with someone you don't want to be without.

What you think is the heart might well be another organ.

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?

If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

Naked is the best disguise.