What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you. Your first parent was a star.
Jeanette WintersonWherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.
Jeanette WintersonYou play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. Itโs the playing thatโs irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette WintersonReading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
Jeanette Winterson