Jeanette Quotes

Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself.

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken?

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.

Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.

Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love

Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.

We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

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

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.

Their throats were bare for God.

Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world became a word.

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.

I have no idea what happens next.

I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.

Trust your creativity.

If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.

To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement.

I don't believe in happy endings.

I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.

August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there

Only the impossible is worth the effort.

True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.

What you eat is the most political thing you do every day

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.

Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world.