Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.
Jeanette WintersonWhen people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.
Jeanette WintersonI didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.
Jeanette WintersonKnow thyself,’ said Socrates.
Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.
What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.
Jeanette WintersonThey say this city can absorb anyone. It does seem that every nationality is here in some part. There are dreamers and poets and landscape painters with dirty noses and wanderers like me who came here by chance and never left. They are all looking for something, travelling the world and the seven seas but looking for a reason to stay. I am not looking, I've found what it is I want...
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean?
It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. Like genius, she is ignorant of what she does.
Tag: love
I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.
Jeanette WintersonWhat is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
Jeanette WintersonI choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.
Jeanette WintersonWhat sex are you?”
Doesn’t matter does it? After all that’s your problem.”
If I keep you, what will happen?”
You’ll have a difficult, different time.”
Is it worth it?”
That’s up to you.
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