Because like the depths of the ocean that calls you home, you will never be easy. But darling, you were not brought here for easy. You are here for so much more. Because you are a boundary pusher. You’re a truth seeker. You’re temptation and seduction and heat. You’re a mirror and a sorcerer and inside you swirls the power of the ancients. So no, you are not easy. But in the space of that truth – please also know this. Do not get this confused with the notion that you do not deserve the deepest ease. Don’t for a minute let them convince you that you will not know the grace of a lover who does not require that you constantly translate yourself or diminish yourself or quiet your storm or tone down your extravagant love. Because that, my girl, is bullshit.
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JEANETTE WINTERSON Pursuing happiness, and I did, and still do, is not at all the same as being happy- which I think is... JEANETTE WINTERSON To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead. JEANETTE WINTERSON Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to... JEANETTE WINTERSON I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've work... JEANETTE WINTERSON Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You... JEANETTE WINTERSON I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald... JEANETTE MACDONALD But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss t... JEANETTE WINTERSON The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is f... JEANETTE WINTERSON To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it. JEANETTE WINTERSON She arches her body like a cat on a stretch. She nuzzles her cunt into my face like a filly at the g... JEANETTE WINTERSON As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting,... JEANETTE WINTERSON Pursuing happiness, and I did, and I still do, is not at all the same as being happy--which I think ... JEANETTE WINTERSON You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is t... JEANETTE WINTERSON I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the... JEANETTE WINTERSON The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess. JEANETTE MACDONALD I must have had rocks in my head. JEANETTE MACDONALD I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going t... JEANETTE MACDONALD I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deep... JEANETTE MACDONALD I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love ... JEANETTE MACDONALD You realize, monsieur, that I am not in love with you, that I have no intention of falling in love w... JEANETTE MACDONALD I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silen... JEANETTE WINTERSON A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a... JEANETTE WINTERSON Language is a finding-place not a hiding place. JEANETTE WINTERSON I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, med... JEANETTE WINTERSON Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness whe... JEANETTE WINTERSON This Captain had been brought up in Istanbul. His mind was made of minarets and domes. He capped him... JEANETTE WINTERSON You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take ... JEANETTE WINTERSON Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't kno... JEANETTE WINTERSON They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could ... JEANETTE WINTERSON I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, n... JEANETTE WINTERSON Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measu... JEANETTE WINTERSON & Whenn i Scratch my Nailss Down hisss baqqqq ; yourrr gonnahhh feel it. JEANETTE R. If the universe is movement, it will not be in one direction only. We think of our lives as linear b... JEANETTE WINTERSON When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where yo... JEANETTE WINTERSON What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents? JEANETTE WINTERSON There is always a city. There is always a civilisation. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. ... JEANETTE WINTERSON There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. ... JEANETTE WINTERSON There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. JEANETTE WINTERSON Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise. JEANETTE WINTERSON