Jeanette Winterson, in the house:

"What you risk reveals what you value."  
(Written on the Body)


‎"You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so how could we take it back without asking?" 
 (Written on the Body)


"The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do not know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they are not being met. "
 (Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit)


"I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many."
 (Written on the Body)


‎"I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them."
 (Lighthousekeeping)


"I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject."
 (Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles)


"Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there."
(The Passion)


"I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone’s little home."
 (Gut Symmetries)


‎"He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil.
Psychosis: out of touch with reality.
Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it." 


"It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment." 


"The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive."
(The Passion)


"When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling."


"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) 


"I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had."
(Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit)


‎"What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you."



‎"I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line."
(Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit)