Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Hurt

Quotes about: Hurt

• Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hurt, Memories, Moving

• I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hurt, Walking Away, Rejection

  Jeanette Winterson (2010). “Weight”, p.98, Canongate Books

• I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something cruel to expiate my anger and to justify myself. But it's difficult with old friends; difficult because it's so easy. You know one another as well as lovers do and you have had less to pretend about. I poured myself a drink and shrugged. 'Nothing's perfect.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hurt, Perfect, Laughing

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

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Hurt, Self

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

• Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hurt, Memories, Thinking

• It was actually books that started to make those pockets of freedom, which I hadn't otherwise experienced. I do see them as talismans, as sacred objects. I see them as something that will protect me, I suppose, that will save me from things that I feel are threatening. I still think that; it doesn't change. It doesn't change, having money, being successful. So from the very first, if I was hurt in some way, then I would take a book -- which was very difficult for me to buy when I was little -- and I would go up into the hills, and that is how I would assuage my hurt.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hurt, Book, Successful

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