Jeanette Wintersonová citáty

„Jsem spisovatelka, která náhodou miluje ženy. Nejsem lesba, která náhodou píše.“

—  Jeanette Wintersonová

Originál: (en) I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
Zdroj: [Burrell, Jocelyn, 2004, Word: On Being a [Woman] Writer, Feminist Press at CUNY, 102, angličtina]

„Do hazardu se pouštíme s nadějí na výhru, ale ve skutečnosti nás vzrušuje to, co bychom mohli ztratit.“

—  Jeanette Wintersonová

Vášeň

„Je jedna černá věž, kde žije divá zvěř. V té věži není oken ani dveří. Nikdo nemůže dovnitř ani ven. Na vrcholu je klec, jejíž mřížoví je z kostí. Z té klece hledí ke slunci uvězněný duch. Tou věží je mé tělo, klecí je má lebka, ten duch, co si pro útěchu prozpěvuje, jsem já.“

—  Jeanette Wintersonová

Jak naštěpit třešeň

„Nepřátelé zabírají víc místa než přátelé.“

—  Jeanette Wintersonová

Vášeň

„Jen málo času stačí změnit celý život, a celý život je potřeba, aby člověk tu změnu pochopil.“

—  Jeanette Wintersonová

Trhlina v čase

„There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.“

—  Jeanette Winterson

Written on the Body (1992)

„Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.“

—  Jeanette Winterson

„Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.“

—  Jeanette Winterson, kniha The Passion

Zdroj: The Passion

„I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.“

—  Jeanette Winterson, kniha Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Zdroj: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

„I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.“

—  Jeanette Winterson, kniha Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Zdroj: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

„I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.“

—  Jeanette Winterson

Zdroj: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

„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, kniha The Passion

Zdroj: The Passion

„I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.“

—  Jeanette Winterson, kniha Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Zdroj: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

„Do you fall in love often?"

Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.“

—  Jeanette Winterson, kniha Gut Symmetries

Zdroj: Gut Symmetries

„When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.“

—  Jeanette Winterson

„It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.“

—  Jeanette Winterson

„To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.“

—  Jeanette Winterson

„Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.“

—  Jeanette Winterson

Zdroj: Written on the Body

„Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it…“

—  Jeanette Winterson