The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
Interpretation
Love can be unexpectedly overwhelming and can lead to deep emotional experiences.
This quote by Jeanette Winterson illustrates the powerful and often disruptive nature of love. It compares love to an ice floe that collides abruptly with one's life, suggesting that, regardless of how sturdy or resilient one may believe their heart to be—much like the Titanic—love has the ability to change everything and can lead to a profound emotional upheaval.
In practice
Using this quote during a speech about the impact of love in our lives.
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.
By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.
I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.
Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really.
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