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She touched my face. ‘I will never forget you. I can never forget you.’
The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson
When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thing about strangers is that they are unknown and known. There is a pattern to her, a shape I understand, a private geometry that numbers mine. She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is the place that I am. She is a stranger. She is the strange that I am beginning to love.
The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson
Some religions call life a dream, or a dreaming, but what if it is a memory? What if this new world isn’t new at all but a memory of a new world? What if we really do keep making the same mistakes again and again, never remembering the lessons to learn but never forgetting either that it had been different, that there was a pristine place? Perhaps the universe is a memory of our mistakes.
The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson
I will set you in the sky and name you. I will hide you in the earth like treasure.
The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson
What kills love? Only this: neglect.
Gut Symmetries, Jeanette Winterson
When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself. I lifted my hand in wonderment and felt my cheeks, my neck. This was me. And when I had looked at myself and grown accustomed to who I was, I was not afraid to hate parts of me because I wanted to be worthy of the mirror bearer.
Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
Desire deserves respect. It is worth the chaos. But it is not love, and only love is worth everything.
Jeanette Winterson, Desire
While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I’d take a taxi across town to see you for ten minutes. I’d wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say ‘Will you…’ my answer is ‘Yes’, before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.
Jeanette Winterson, Desire
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1 month ago on April 17, 2012 at 11:49am with 100 notes
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1 month ago on April 17, 2012 at 11:49am with 100 notes
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Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost forever. There’s only now.
Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (via bookmania)
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1 month ago on April 16, 2012 at 06:14am with 642 notes
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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.
Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (via bookmania)
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1 month ago on April 13, 2012 at 03:41pm with 777 notes
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