The boat was vacuum-packed with Albanians, four generations to a family: great-grandmother, air-dried like a chilli pepper, deep red skin and a hot temper; grandmother, all sun-dried tomato, tough, chewy, skin split with the heat; getting the kids to rub olive oil into her arms; mother, moist as a purple fig, open everywhere - blouse, skirt, mouth, eyes, a wide-open woman, lips licking the salt spray flying from the open boat. Then there were the kids, aged four and six, a couple of squirs, zesty as lemons.
Jeanette WintersonStichwörter: lighthousekeeping
What you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette WintersonTrust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.
Jeanette WintersonTo be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
Jeanette WintersonStichwörter: world society mental-illness
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the Eiffel Tower was a hideous symbol of phallic oppression but when ordered by her commander to detonate the lift so that no-one should unthinkingly scale an erection, her mind filled with young romantics gazing over Paris and opening aerograms that said Je t'aime.
Jeanette WintersonTrust me, I'm telling you stories.
Jeanette WintersonAlthough wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.
Jeanette WintersonI don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.
Jeanette WintersonI can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.
Jeanette WintersonDarkness 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 WintersonStichwörter: darkness light weakness sympathy angels
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