When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I heard him singing to himself without me, and when he tended the garden it was not for me. He was courteous and polite; he enjoyed being at home, but in the fantasy of his home I was not the one who sat opposite him and laughed at his jokes. He didn't want to change anything; he liked his life. The only thing he wanted to change was me.
It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is. - Jeanette Winterson
It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.
- Jeanette Winterson
Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was. - Jeanette Winterson
Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was.
She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don'… - Jeanette Winterson
She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don'…
Life was a pre-death experience. - Jeanette Winterson
Life was a pre-death experience.
Do it from the heart or not at all. - Jeanette Winterson
Do it from the heart or not at all.
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents,… - Jeanette Winterson
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents,…
There’s no story that’s the start of itself. - Jeanette Winterson
There’s no story that’s the start of itself.
Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending. - Jeanette Winterson
Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.
In this life, you have to be your own hero. - Jeanette Winterson
In this life, you have to be your own hero.
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