Jeanette Winterson Quotes on People (7 Quotes)

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had. Some people's emanations are very strong, some people create themselves afresh outside of their own body. This is not fancy. If a potter has an idea, she makes it into a pot, and it exists beyond her, in its own separate life. She uses a physical substance to display her thoughts. If I use a metaphysical substance to display my thoughts, I might be anywhere at one time, influencing a number of different things, just as the potter and her pottery can exert influence in different places. There's a chance that I'm not here at all, that all the parts of me, running along all the choices I did and didn't make, for a moment brush agains teach other.

My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call hyou home Only the one who knows your name.

One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.

You'll get over it...' It's the cliches that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it The articularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no one else can fit it. Why would I want them to.