I can't sleep…
Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke.
– Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Grove Press, March 6, 2012)
Portrait: CCCB
“If the sun is shining, stand in it
– yes, yes, yes.”
~ Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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What is it that I have to tell myself again and again?
That there is always a new beginning, a different end.
I can change the story.
I am the story.
Begin.
~ Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook
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The important things are learned in faces,
in gestures,
not in our locked tongues.
The true things are too big or too small,
or in any case always the wrong size
to fit in the template called language.
~ Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping (Harvest Books, 2006)
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The body shuts down
when it has too much to bear;
goes its own way quietly inside,
waiting for a better time,
leaving you numb and half alive.
~ Jeanette Winterson, from The Passion
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