Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I remember, the things I turn over in my hands, are not houses, bank accounts, prizes or promotions. What I remember is love -- all love -- love of this dirt road, this sunrise, a day by the river, the stranger I met in a café. Myself, even, which is the hardest thing of all to love, because love and selfishness are not the same thing. It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do.
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'…
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,…
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’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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