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“Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?” (Sexing the Cherry Quotes)
Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
“As your lover describes you, so you are.”
Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
“Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.”
Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
“I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.”
Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
“I may be cynical when I say that very rarely is the beloved more than a shaping spirit for the lover’s dreams.”
Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
“I thought I might become someone else in time, grafted on to something better and stronger. And then I saw that the running away was a running towards. An effort to catch up with my fleet-footed self, living another life in a different way.”
Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
“I’m not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me.”
Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
“Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.” (Sexing the Cherry Quotes)
Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
“Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.”
Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
“My mother has often been labelled as strange but that’s because she says things that people can’t possibly believe. Mostly she’s right.”
Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
“The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I’m not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can’t describe myself I can’t ask for help.”
Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
“The earth is round and flat at the same time. This is obvious. That it is round appears indisputable; that it is flat is our common experience, also indisputable. The globe does not supersede the map; the map does not distort the globe.”
Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
“There’s so little wonder left in the world because we’ve seen everything one way or another’.”
Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
“We were all nomads once, and crossed the deserts and the seas on tracks that could not be detected, but were clear to those who knew the way. Since settling down and rooting like trees, but without the ability to make use of the wind to scatter our seed, we have found only infection and discontent.”
Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
“When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.”
Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
