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“I have a head for heights it’s true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.” (Written on the Body Quotes)
Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
“I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.”
Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
“Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.”
Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
“Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.”
Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
“There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.”
Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
“This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
“Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.”
Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
“To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there’s nothing there.”
Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
“What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?”
Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
“What you risk reveals what you value.”
Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
“When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.”
Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
“Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body.”
Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
