Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.
Jeanette WintersonNot much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.
Jeanette WintersonWhat is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
Jeanette Winterson