The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
Weitere Zitate von Jeanette Winterson
Zum Autor"I want to touch you.''And if you did touch me, what then?''I would find a language of beginning."
"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."
"As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us."
"One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone."
"Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth."
"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. Some people's emanations are very strong, some people create themselves afresh outside of their own body."