Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Quotes
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.
I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.
By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.
There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?
There are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.
If you think about something for long enough, ' she explained, 'more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. 'It's all in the mind.
People like to separate storytelling which is not fact from history which is fact. They do this so that they know what to believe and what not to believe.
...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding to fully exist.
If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes.
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.Or the people who found Atlantis.
History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.