He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.
Interpretation
Trust and honesty are vital in love, but each person is responsible for their own truth.
In this quote, Jeanette Winterson emphasizes the importance of trust and honesty in loving relationships. While one may doubt their partner and question their truthfulness, the individual must ultimately focus on being truthful themselves, maintaining their own integrity in the relationship irrespective of the other's honesty.
In practice
In a wedding speech to emphasize the importance of honesty in love.
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself.
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.
Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.
I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was.
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.
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