Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook Quotes

...love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down

The past is magnetic. It draws us in.

History is a madman's museum.

There will be a future. We believe in our unreality too strongly to give it up.

This Captain had been brought up in Istanbul. His mind was made of minarets and domes. He capped himself with spacious ease. He was his own call to prayer.

I can change the story. I am the story.