Tagged: Jeanette Winterson.
April 3rd, 2012
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  ∞03:39 am, by lostinthesounds ∩22
[Gut Symmetries] [Jeanette Winterson] [Picture] [Picture Quote] [mine] [lostinthesounds]
April 1st, 2012
Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of time before time, she says little, and in a language that no one has yet understood. Through time, her secret codes have gradually been broken. Her mud and lava is a message from the past. Of time to come, she says much, but who listens?
Weight by Jeanette Winterson

∞08:19 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩11
[Quote] [Weight] [Jeanette Winterson] [Book Quote]
March 9th, 2012
‘The key to happiness,’ she said, ‘is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.’ `What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?’ I said…. Alaska frowned. `Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication.’
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson

∞12:56 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩9
[Quote] [Book Quote] [The Stone Gods] [Jeanette Winterson]
February 25th, 2012
I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

∞01:51 am, by lostinthesounds ∩9
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Sexing the Cherry] [Jeanette Winterson]
February 13th, 2012
Love’s lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.
The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson

∞11:10 am, by lostinthesounds ∩19
[Quote] [Book Quote] [The PowerBook] [Jeanette Winterson]
February 9th, 2012
Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

∞02:47 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩18
[The Passion] [Jeanette Winterson] [Quote] [Book Quote]
February 7th, 2012
I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

∞03:42 am, by lostinthesounds ∩27
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Oranges Are Not the Only Frui] [Jeanette Winterson]
January 14th, 2012
We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that’s true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling.
Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson

∞08:19 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩39
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Lighthousekeeping] [Jeanette Winterson]
January 5th, 2012
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.
Art Objects by Jeanette Winterson

∞01:53 am, by lostinthesounds ∩37
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Art Objects] [Jeanette Winterson]
December 21st, 2011

Walk with me, hand in hand through the neon and styrofoam. Walk the razor blades and the broken hearts. Walk the fortune and the fortune hunted. Walk the chop suey bars and the tract of stars.
I know I am a fool, hoping dirt and glory are both a kind of luminous paint; the humiliations and exaltations that light us up. I see like a bug, everything too large, the pressure of infinity hammering at my head. But how else to live, vertical that I am, pressed down and pressing up simultaneously? I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other.

The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.
Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson

∞12:00 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩26
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Gut Symmetries] [Jeanette Winterson]
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