Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Leaving

Quotes about: Leaving

• I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Years, Leaving, Another Chance

  "Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2011.

• The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Numbness, Waiting, Leaving

• Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Boxing, Leaving, Stories

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.93, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives are governed by something much less regular-an imaginative impulse cutting through the dictates of daily time, and leaving us free to ignore the boundaries of here and now and pass like lightning along the coil of pure time, that is, the circle of the universe and whatever it does or does not contain.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cutting, Thinking, Circles

  Jeanette Winterson (1991). “Sexing the Cherry”, Vintage

• Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fall, Leaving, Misery

  "Written on the Body". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 1992.

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