Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself, deaf to pleading and unmoved by violence. Love is not something you can negotiate. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

Jeanette Winterson's Popular Quotes

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

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

Life was a pre-death experience.

- Jeanette Winterson

Do it from the heart or not at all.

- 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,…

- Jeanette Winterson

There’s no story that’s the start of itself.

- 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.

- Jeanette Winterson

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

- Jeanette Winterson