Jeanette Winterson, The Passion Quotes

It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.

When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.

St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry.

Infatuation. First Love. Lust. My passion can be explained away. But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals.

Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided likemercury then gathered up only at the last moment.

Passion out of passion's obstacles.

Passion is not such an emotion as a destiny.

Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes were only the result of bad luck or hubris.

What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?

There's no such thing as a limited victory. Every victory leaves another resentment, another defeated and humiliated people. Another place to guard and defend and fear.