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“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.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Me calma pensar que hi haurà tants universos paral·lels per estrenar com vulgue, que tinc lo poder per canviar la realitat, per crear un univers rere l'altre rere l'altre, cada cop més ric, cada cop més savi.”
― Maria Climent, Gina

“Lo passat se t'esmuny d'una manera inevitable i brutal i cruel. Si pogués estirar el braç i acaronar ni que fos uns segons breus alguna d'estes etapes per recordar que tot això ho hai viscut jo de veritat, creu-me que ho faria. Miraria enrere i a tota esta gent que ha construït etapes amb mi, els diria que gràcies, que els estimo i que ara no sé qui sóc.”
― Maria Climent, Gina

“De vegades voler conèixer algú és un error, de vegades és millor quedar-te amb la utopia, la idealització i la fantasia, sempre possible.”
― Maria Climent, Gina

“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, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“I just wanted to write to tell you that I have been happy during these months together, that I have never been so happy, and that I already know I will never be so happy again.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“He smiled so that I could take his smile with me.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“The question that imposed itself: Why me?
The image doesn't fit: my thick glasses, my stretched-out blue Nordic sweater, the student head slaps, the too-good grades, the feminine gestures. Why me?
He says: Because you are not like all the others, because I don't see anyone but you and you don't even realize it.”
― Philippe Besson, « Arrête avec tes mensonges »

“It is not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between them.”
― jeanette winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Now if I was aping men, she'd have every right to be disgusted. As far as I was concerned, men were something you had around the place...not particularly interesting, but quite harmless.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“If I'd been a different type of person I would have stayed. I pictured another life, a Stockholm life with the water and the changing of the seasons as the backdrop, a life where I was a person who didn't recoil before everything that was bigger and stronger than me. When we locked eyes it felt like he'd had the same thought.”
― Johanna Hedman, The Trio

“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, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never be destroyed.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.”
― Hannah Arendt, On Revolution

“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“I am growing up. I am losing some illusions, perhaps to acquire others.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Being beautiful, was that for men?'
'Yes. Some women say that it is for ourselves. What on earth can we do with it? I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“My memory begins with my anger.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“She is fresh air, and warmth, and mornings in July. What is there to fix? There is evil in my yearning, know, I just can't see where yet.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I’ve never wanted to be an astronaut because of the helmets. If I were up there on the moon, or by the Milky Way, I’d want to feel the stars round my head. I’d want my whole body to feel the space, the empty space and points of light. That’s how dancers must feel, dancers and acrobats, just for a second, that freedom.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry