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“Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.” (The Passion Quotes by Jeanette Winterson)
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
“He liked me because I am short. I flatter myself. He did not dislike me. He liked no one except Josephine and he liked her the way he liked chicken.”
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
“I asked him why he was a priest, and he said if you have to work for anyone, an absentee boss is best.”
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
“I didn’t know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It’s huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it’s proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it’s for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?”
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
“I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.”
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
“I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.”
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
“I was angry. Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can’t be logical about.”
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
“If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.”
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
“Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.”
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
“Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.” (The Passion Quotes by Jeanette Winterson)
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
“The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.”
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
“The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.”
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
“There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming.”
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
“There’s no such thing as a limited victory. You must protect what you have won. You must take is seriously.”
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
“We gamble with the thought of winning. But it’s the thought of what we might lose that excites us.”
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
“What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?”
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
“Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can’t be logical about.”
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
“You can’t make sense of your passion for life in the face of death, you can only give up your passion. Only then can you begin to survive.”
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
