Jeanette Winterson

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#destiny #fate #life #life

Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#obsession #passion #love

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#library #lies #people #reading #words

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#dream #imagination #dreams

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#risk

It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#obsession #passion #love

After loss of Identity, the most potent modern terror, is loss of sexuality, or, as Descartes didn’t say, "I fuck therefore I am". ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#art

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life #life

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#fate #self-discovery #understanding #destiny

When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#change