Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
Jeanette WintersonBooks and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
Jeanette WintersonAugust. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.
Jeanette WintersonI want to get to the end and feel that I've done all I could, given the limitations and given the opportunities.
Jeanette WintersonIn the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.
Jeanette Winterson