I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
Jeanette WintersonIn a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.
Jeanette WintersonSix books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.
Jeanette Winterson