If everything I have become were not machine-made I might be able to take the risk of being human with you.
Jeanette WintersonThe important things. Where should I find them? In the detail, like God? In the risk, like the Devil?
Jeanette WintersonIt is no use trying to assume again the state of innocence and acceptance of the animal or the child. This time it has to be conscious. To circle about in such gladness as his, is the effort of a whole lifetime.
Jeanette WintersonI walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning.
Jeanette WintersonWhen I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired of your Prince coming and coming.
Jeanette WintersonTags: words sex language desire femininity masculinity
I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.
Jeanette WintersonTags: romance
It is not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between them.
Jeanette WintersonIf the demons lie within they travel with you.
Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
Death will be like that. We will be forever recognizing people we have never met.
Jeanette WintersonI didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.... I didn't want to live and die in the same place with only a week at the seaside in between. I dreamed of escape -- but what is terrible about industrialisation is that it makes escape necessary. In a system that generates masses, individualism is the only way out. But then what happens to community -- to society?
Jeanette WintersonTags: society individualism community industrialisation working-class industrialization
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