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Nail me to you. I will ride you like a nightmare.
Jeanette Winterson, Written On The Body (via ou-bliee)
Cheating is easy. There’s no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there’s nothing there.
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
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
I will explore you and mine you and you will redraw me according to your will. We shall cross one another’s boundaries and make ourselves one nation.
Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
She stroked my hair. ‘I want you to come to me without a past. Those lines you’ve learned, forget them. Forget that you’ve been here before in other bedrooms in other places. Come to me new. Never say you love me until that day when you have proved it.’
— Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
I don’t like to think of myself as an insincere person but if I say I love you and I don’t mean it then what else am I? Will I cherish you, adore you, make way for you, make myself better for you, look at you and always see you, tell you the truth? And if love is not those things then what things?
Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
“What then? That you, so recently dressed, lost your clothes in an unconscious pile and I found you wore a petticoat. Louise, your nakedness was too complete for me, who had not learned the extent of your fingers. How could I cover this land? Did Columbus feel like this on sighting the America? I had no dreams to possess you but I wanted you to possess me.”
— Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
— Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
