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“And the people I have hurt, the mistakes I have made, the damage to myself and others, wasn’t poor judgement; it was the place where love had hardened into loss.” (Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes)
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“At my most precarious, I balanced on a book, and the books rafted me over the tides of feelings that left me soaked and shattered.”
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home-they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.”
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.”
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Going mad is the beginning of a process, it’s not meant to be the end result.”
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.”
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.”
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“It is better to know it. Better to know who you are, and what lies in you, what you could do, might do, under extreme provocation.”
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don’t want to go. You look where you don’t want to look.”
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Life was a pre-death experience.”
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you.” (Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes)
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else’s terms.”
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“There are two kinds of writing; the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don’t want to go. You look where you don’t want to look.”
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world.”
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.”
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don’t.”
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don’t heal by forming a secret society of one – by assessing about the only other ‘one’ we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.”
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Why is the measure of love loss?”
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
