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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
Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too that without love we grope the tunnels of our lives and never see the sun.
Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
I love badly. That is, too little or too much. I throw myself over an unsuitable cliff, only to reel back in horror from a simple view out the window.
Gut Symmetries, Jeanette Winterson
The love we seek overrules human nature. It has a wildness in it and a glory that we want more than life itself. Love never counts the cost, to itself or others, and nothing is as cruel as love. There is no love that does not pierce the hands and feet.
Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook
‘One day this will destroy us,’ you said, your lips like tongs, moving the burning parts of me. But I wondered how it could destroy us when it was us? We had become this love. We were not lovers. We were love.
Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook
When I say ‘I will be true to you’ I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No-one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself, deaf to pleading and unmoved by violence. Love is not something you can negotiate. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
So I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache.
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6 months ago on December 01, 2011 at 10:11pm with 3,253 notes
Via radanta
6 months ago on December 01, 2011 at 10:11pm with 3,253 notes
Via radanta
Unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your time. There are too many mediocre things in life; love shouldn’t be one of them.
Dream for an Insomniac (via quote-book)
