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Famous Jeanette Winterson Quotes
“Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.”
“Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?”
“But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.”
Source: The Powerbook
Source: The Powerbook
“No emotion is the final one.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Source: Written On The Body
“Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!”
“Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Source: Sexing the Cherry
“That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Source: Weight
“I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.”
Source: Weight
Source: Weight
Source: Weight
“Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.”
Source: Lighthousekeeping
Source: Lighthousekeeping
Source: Lighthousekeeping
“I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.”
“I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.”
Source: Lighthousekeeping
“It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.”
Source: Written On The Body
Source: Sexing the Cherry
“In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.”
Source: Written On The Body
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit