December 2011
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cupcakevandorn asked: Gut Symmetries is my favorite.
November 2011
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“We love the habits of love. The way you wear your hair. The way you drink your...”
– Jeanette Winterson, All I Know About Gertrude Stein
lack-of-surprise- asked: What is your favourite Winterson book?
June 2011
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“I met my lover two years ago and I fell in love. I fell like a stray star caught...”
– Jeanette Winterson, All I Know About Gertrude Stein
May 2011
1 post
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“I find myself returning again and again to the same familiar condition of...”
– Jeanette Winterson, All I Know About Gertrude Stein
February 2011
7 posts
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“Contentment is a feeling you say? Are you sure it’s not an absence of...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
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“I looked back at you. These moments that are talisman and treasure. Cumulative...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping
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“I don’t expect to be happy. I don’t imagine that I will find love,...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping
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“Love is an unarmed intruder.”
– Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping
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“Love is difficult. Love gets harder which is not the same as to say that it gets...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Poetics of Sex (from The World and Other Places)
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“That first night, in the unsteady single bed, I lay awake while you slept. I was...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping
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“Making love we made a dictionary of forbidden words. We are words, sentences,...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Poetics of Sex (from The World and Other Places)
July 2010
3 posts
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“I do not want to declare love on you as of midnight yesterday. I do not want to...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries
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“Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries
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“Stella turned towards me and crumpled my heart in her hand.
‘Do you fall...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries
April 2010
3 posts
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“And now, swarming over the earth with our tiny insect bodies and putting up...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
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“‘What’s illegal?’
‘Falling in love with me.’
...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
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“I think it is often so that those most in need of change choose to fall in love...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
March 2010
6 posts
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“Is this the explanation then when we meet someone we do not know and feel...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“‘You’ve grown up,’ she said.
She was the same, though she...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“Pleasure and danger. Pleasure on the edge of danger is sweet. It’s the...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“I say I’m in love with her. What does that mean?”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“There are dreamers and poets and landscape painters with dirty noses and...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
February 2010
13 posts
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“There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“He kissed her forehead and she smiled. I watched them together and saw more in a...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“Does she do this often? Does she walk the streets, when her husband goes away,...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“Kissing in this way is the strangest of distractions. The greedy body that...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“We had eaten. The bottle was empty. She said she had married late in life, had...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat,...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“Only for a second she touched me and then she was gone and I was left with my...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“I like such kisses. They fill the mouth and leave the body free. To kiss well...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
“Queen of spades you win, Ace of clubs you lose. Play again. What will you risk?...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
January 2010
16 posts
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“‘Louise, I don’t know what you are. I’ve turned myself inside...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
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“‘I’m not married.’
‘You think that makes you...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
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“‘I wanted you everywhere and the pathetic thing is I still do.’”
– Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
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“I dipped my hands in the water. Liquid time.
And I thought, “Go home...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook
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“Perhaps this is how it is - life flowing smoothly over memory and history, the...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook
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“How did it start? That hotel room in Paris. Dinner at Paul’s. The walk...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook
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“Sex between women is mirror geography. The subtlety of its secret - utterly the...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook
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“Love it was that drove them forth. Love that brought them home again. Love...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
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“It’s the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
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“Her arms were warm and tight. ‘What is it you want?’ she said.
I...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook
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“She touched my hand and said, ‘Will you always follow me?’
...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook
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“We were quiet together after we had made love. We watched the afternoon sun fall...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body