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“To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“What you risk reveals what you value.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“As your lover describes you, so you are.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“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, The Passion