Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there
Jeanette WintersonI return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.
Jeanette WintersonWriting has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.
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 WintersonDo you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.
Jeanette Winterson