Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.
Jeanette WintersonWith animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
Jeanette WintersonI keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.
Jeanette WintersonIt may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.
Jeanette WintersonHe: Whatโs the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, "but there was nothing the matter with her.
Jeanette Winterson