“Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse.”
Jeanette Winterson livro The Passion
Fonte: The Passion (1987)
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“Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.”
Jeanette Winterson livro The Passion
Variante: every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.
Fonte: The Passion
“Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.”
Jeanette Winterson livro Lighthousekeeping
Fonte: Lighthousekeeping
“The free man never thinks of escape.”
Fonte: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
“She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.”
Jeanette Winterson livro The Passion
Fonte: The Passion
Jeanette Winterson livro Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Fonte: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson livro Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Fonte: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.”
Jeanette Winterson livro Sexing the Cherry
Fonte: Sexing the Cherry
“If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.”
Jeanette Winterson livro The Passion
Fonte: The Passion
“Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.”
Fonte: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
“…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.”
Jeanette Winterson livro Sexing the Cherry
Fonte: Sexing the Cherry
Jeanette Winterson livro Gut Symmetries
Gut Symmetries (1997)
Contexto: They were letting off fireworks down at the waterfront, the sky exploding in grenades of colour. Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty - even for a moment - it is enough.
Jeanette Winterson livro Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Fonte: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.”
Fonte: Written on the Body
“I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.”
Jeanette Winterson livro The Passion
Fonte: The Passion
Jeanette Winterson livro Lighthousekeeping
Fonte: Lighthousekeeping
“We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.”
Jeanette Winterson livro Lighthousekeeping
Fonte: Lighthousekeeping
Jeanette Winterson livro Lighthousekeeping
Fonte: Lighthousekeeping