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Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.”

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Jeanette Winterson is a renowned British author known for her distinctive literary style and profound social commentary. Her works span a wide range of themes, including novels, essays, and poetry. Winterson's novel 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit' is a story about growth, faith, and sexuality that has received widespread acclaim. more

“Let me tell you a few things about regret...There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself?”

Ifs Should Ends Whole Air Regret Let Me Chains Links Oleanders

Author:Janet Fitch

“Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.”

Thinking Knows Hands Pieces Blood Feet Skins Surface Cells Odd Flats Nerves Palms Vessel Blood Vessels

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.”

People Feelings

Book:Lighthousekeeping

Source: Lighthousekeeping

“Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.”

Knows Said Church Thyself Know Thyself

Book:Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd

Source: Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd

“You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.”

World Looks Faces Another World

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone’s little home.”

People Knows Want Firsts Littles Home Lying Found Space Views Stubbornness Decorating Don't Lie

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had long hair and spoke American. A lot of Americans are gay people, aren’t they? I know they didn’t invent gayness, because they say that was the Greeks. But they helped bring it back into fashion. Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: it disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth century. Anyway, I didn’t know anything about gays, so I just presumed they were all unhappy and wanted to kill themselves.”

“…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.”

Faces Sea Voyages Sea Voyage

Book:Sexing the Cherry

Source: Sexing the Cherry

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

Source: THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)

“They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?”

Thinking Knows Grows Growing Up Serious Decided Busy Settling Serious Things

Book:The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

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