Jeanette Wintersonová nejznámější citáty
Jak naštěpit třešeň
„Jsem spisovatelka, která náhodou miluje ženy. Nejsem lesba, která náhodou píše.“
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]
Jeanette Wintersonová: Citáty anglicky
“Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.”
Jeanette Winterson kniha The Passion
Varianta: every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.
Zdroj: The Passion
“Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.”
Jeanette Winterson kniha Lighthousekeeping
Zdroj: Lighthousekeeping
“The free man never thinks of escape.”
Zdroj: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
“She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.”
Jeanette Winterson kniha The Passion
Zdroj: The Passion
Jeanette Winterson kniha Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Zdroj: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson kniha Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Zdroj: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.”
Jeanette Winterson kniha Sexing the Cherry
Zdroj: Sexing the Cherry
“If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.”
Jeanette Winterson kniha The Passion
Zdroj: The Passion
“Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.”
Zdroj: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
“…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.”
Jeanette Winterson kniha Sexing the Cherry
Zdroj: Sexing the Cherry
Jeanette Winterson kniha Gut Symmetries
Gut Symmetries (1997)
Kontext: They were letting off fireworks down at the waterfront, the sky exploding in grenades of colour. Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty - even for a moment - it is enough.
Jeanette Winterson kniha Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Zdroj: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.”
Zdroj: Written on the Body
“I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.”
Jeanette Winterson kniha The Passion
Zdroj: The Passion
Jeanette Winterson kniha Lighthousekeeping
Zdroj: Lighthousekeeping
“We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.”
Jeanette Winterson kniha Lighthousekeeping
Zdroj: Lighthousekeeping
Jeanette Winterson kniha Lighthousekeeping
Zdroj: Lighthousekeeping
“It is not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between them.”
Jeanette Winterson kniha Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Varianta: It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
Zdroj: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
