Frases de Jeanette Winterson (187 citações)

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Jeanette Winterson: Frases em inglês

“Tell me a story, Pew.
What kind of story, child?
A story with a happy ending.
There's no such thing in all the world.
As a happy ending?
As an ending.”

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Jeanette Winterson livro Lighthousekeeping

Fonte: Lighthousekeeping (2004), p. 49

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”

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“Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.”

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Jeanette Winterson livro The Passion

Fonte: The Passion

“Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Fonte: Written on the Body

“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”

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Jeanette Winterson

“Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.”

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Jeanette Winterson livro Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Fonte: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.”

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Jeanette Winterson livro Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Fonte: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do.”

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Jeanette Winterson livro Lighthousekeeping

Fonte: Lighthousekeeping (2004), p. 199

“There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Written on the Body (1992)

“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.”

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Jeanette Winterson livro Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Fonte: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“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.”

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Jeanette Winterson livro Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Fonte: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Fonte: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

“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.”

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Jeanette Winterson livro The Passion

Fonte: The Passion

“I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.”

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Jeanette Winterson livro Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Fonte: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Do you fall in love often?"

Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.”

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Jeanette Winterson livro Gut Symmetries

Fonte: Gut Symmetries

“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.”

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“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.”

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Jeanette Winterson

“To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.”

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Jeanette Winterson

“Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it…”

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Jeanette Winterson

“Why is the measure of love… loss? pg.9”

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Jeanette Winterson

Written on the Body (1992)
Fonte: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Fonte: The World and Other Places: Stories

“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.”

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Jeanette Winterson livro The Passion

Fonte: The Passion

“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.”

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Jeanette Winterson livro Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Fonte: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave”

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“Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.”

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Jeanette Winterson

Fonte: Written on the Body

“What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?”

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Jeanette Winterson livro The Passion

Fonte: The Passion

“They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?”

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“do it from the heart or not at all.”

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Jeanette Winterson livro The Passion

Fonte: The Passion

“I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.”

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Jeanette Winterson livro Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Fonte: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.”

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Jeanette Winterson livro Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Fonte: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit