You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own.
Weitere Zitate von Jeanette Winterson
Zum Autor"Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)."
"It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist."
"Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and space. There is warmth there too - a hearth. I sit down with a book and I am warm."
"One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone."
"If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes."
"The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home."