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“Analogies fail, but I am capable of behaving like an eight-armed cephalopod while protesting the innocence of my two hands on the table.” (Gut Symmetries Quotes)
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. 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.”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“For the first time in months I felt my body slacken. I had been carrying myself like a gun, cocked, alert, ready for trouble, fearing it.”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“I don’t own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don’t want to drown. My head is my heart’s lifebelt.”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-decorated heart is wearing; who wants my blood red and vein-blue?”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“I love badly. That is too little or too much. I throw myself over an unsuitable cliff, only to reel back in horror from a simple view out the window.”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“I tried to copy my parents, as monkeys do, but they were trying to copy me, looking to the child for the energy and hope they had long since lost.”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“I wanted clothes about me because I felt I had been bone stripped. The solid knowable shape had gone.”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“I would be tender as the night that covers up your foolishness and mine.”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“I’ve lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.” (Gut Symmetries Quotes)
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“Like my grandmother he kept secrets the way other people kept fish. They were a hobby, a fascination, his underwater collection of the rare and the strange. Occasionally something would float up to the surface, unexpected, unexplained”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“The grey city and its lost hearts force its way between myself and my healing.”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it’s the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“There is a thin line of me, wavering and not strong, that wants to learn the language of beasts and water and night.”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as I start to run?”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
“We were to be the lightest of things, he and I, lifting each other up above the heaviness of life. If was because we knew that gravity is always part of the equation that we tried to defeat it.”
Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries
