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“All of one’s life is a struggle towards that; the narrow path between freedom and belonging. I have sometimes sacrificed freedom in order to belong, but more often I have given up all hope of belonging.” (The World and Other Places Quotes)
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“I could see in her a piece of the bright hope I once had in myself and it made me sour and angry. It made me feel sorry for her too. I wanted to take both her hands in mine, look her in the eye, and let her see that the world isn’t interested in a little black girl’s dreams.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“I had thought about everything carefully before I had agreed to him. I had made every preparation, every calculation, except for those two essentials that could not be calculated; his heart and mine.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“I live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning. At other times the line is so wired that it lights up the soles of my feet, gradually my whole body, until I am my own beacon, and I see then the beauty of newly created worlds, a form that is not random. A new beginning.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“I made him walk on a lead and he jumped for joy, the way creatures do, and children do and adults don’t do, and spend their lives wondering where the leap went.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“If everything I have become were not machine-made I might be able to take the risk of being human with you.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“I’m always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“I’m not afraid of what I am. I’m afraid I will see what I am not.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“Invisible worlds, or worlds that are supposed to be invisible interest me. I like to see the effort it takes for some people to make things go smoothly for other people. Don’t misunderstand me; mostly I’m part of the invisible world myself.” (The World and Other Places Quotes)
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“It is no use trying to assume again the state of innocence and acceptance of the animal or the child. This time it has to be conscious. To circle about in such gladness as his, is the effort of a whole lifetime.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“It is true that on bright days we are happy. That is true because the sun on the eyelids effects chemical changes in the body. The sun also diminishes the pupils to pinpricks, letting the light in less. When we can hardly see we are most likely to fall in love.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“Perhaps it is true that the world is made new again every day but our minds are not. The clamp that holds me will not let me go.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“She found that the whole world could be contained in one place because that place was herself. Nothing had prepared her for this.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“That night, I knew I would get away, better myself. Not because I despised who I was, but because I did not know who I was. I was waiting to be invented. I was waiting to invent myself.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“The planets are bodies in the solar system and so are we. You and I in elliptical orbs circling life. It is life we want, but we daren’t come too close for fear it might burn us away, this life in its intensity.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“Until we learn to stop dying Tom, we have to live with the consequences. There’s no room for the dead unless you treat them as ornamental.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“What if?’ has no power against ‘What if not?’ The not of you is unbearable. I must have you.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“When I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired of your Prince coming and coming.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“When you dig under the surface, past the necessities, men and women don’t mix.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
“Yes I will come for you. Roll my strength into a ball for you. Throw myself across chance for you. I will be the bridge or the pulley because you are the dream.”
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
