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“At that time I could not imagine what would become of me, and I didn’t care. It was not judgement day, but another morning.” (Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Quotes)
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“I have a theory that every time you make an important decision, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“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.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never be destroyed.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“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.” (Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Quotes)
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“It is necessary to distinguish the chalk circle from the stone wall.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“People like to separate storytelling which is not fact from history which is fact. They do this so that they know what to believe and what not to believe.”
Jeanette Winterson
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.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do not know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they are not being met.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other’s names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“To do something large and to do it well demands such observances, personal and peculiar, laughable as they often are, because they stave off that dinginess of soul that says that everything is small and grubby and nothing is really worth the effort.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.”
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
