He liked me because I am short. I flatter myself. He did not dislike me. He liked no one except Josephine and he liked her the way he liked chicken.
Jeanette WintersonTags: the-passion
The journey is about coming home....There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. It is a blood-trail." (p. 220,222)
Jeanette WintersonTags: truth-of-life
It takes much longer to leave the psychic place than the physical place." (p.120)
Jeanette WintersonTags: inspirational truth-telling
There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness.
Revenge and Tragedy often happen together.
Forgiveness unblocks the future." (p.225)
Tags: truth-of-life
If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.
Jeanette WintersonHow many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?
Jeanette WintersonBut, Mistress, do not be seen to stray too far from the real that is clear to others, or you may stand accused of the real that is clear to you.
Jeanette WintersonThe night I left home I felt that I had been tricked or trapped into going - and not even by Mrs Winterson, but by the dark narrative of our life together.
Her fatalism was so powerful. She was her own black hole that pulled in all the light. She was made of dark matter and her force was invisible unseen except in its effects.
What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us?
Tags: happiness
Art is central to all our lives, not just the better-off and educated. . . I know that from my own story, and from the evidence of every child ever born — they all want to hear and to tell stories, to sing, to make music, to act out little dramas, to paint pictures, to make sculptures. This is born in and we breed it out. And then, when we have bred it out, we say that art is elitist, and at the same time we either fetishize art — the high prices, the jargon, the inaccessibility — or we ignore it. The truth is, artist or not, we are all born on the creative continuum, and that is a heritage and a birthright of all of our lives.
Jeanette WintersonTags: art
Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open -- the only way to stop the story running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants.
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