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“As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long since shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.” (Lighthousekeeping Quotes)
Jeanette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping
“Don’t regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.”
Jeanette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping
“Every new beginning prompts a return.”
Jeanette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping
“I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.”
Jeanette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping
“I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.”
Jeanette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping
“I think of love as a force of nature-as strong as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming, as drought-making as it is life-giving.”
Jeanette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping
“It is true that words drop away, and that the important things are often left unsaid. The important things are learned in faces, in gestures, not in our locked tongues. The true things are too big or too small, or in any case is always the wrong size to fit in the template called language.”
Jeanette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping
“It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide.” (Lighthousekeeping Quotes)
Jeanette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping
“Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you’ll come to me.”
Jeanette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping
“Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world.”
Jeanette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping
“This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.”
Jeanette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping
“We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.”
Jeanette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping
“We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that’s true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling.”
Jeanette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping
“When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.”
Jeanette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping
