What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of who you are, you're the one who has to take control. And also, you're the one who can bring something to the community.
Jeanette WintersonQuoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!
Jeanette WintersonWhatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
Jeanette WintersonEvery moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.
Jeanette WintersonWhy did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.
Jeanette WintersonLie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you their furniture. Let me see the wounds that they denied. The battle ground of family life that has been your body. Let me see the bruised red lines that signal their encampment. Let me see the routed place where they are gone. Lie beside me and let the seeing be healing. No need to hide. No need for either darkness or light. Let me see you as you are.
Jeanette Winterson