Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.
Jeanette WintersonWritten on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like Braille. I like to keep my body rolled up away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, or tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.
Jeanette WintersonOne room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.
Jeanette Winterson