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“And the poet, obviously. Hearing voices can be a good thing”

“Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.”

shes so funny love her

“Mostly we do our best to stifle life – to be tame or to be wanton. To be tranquillised or raging. Extremes have the same effect; they insulate us from the intensity of life.
And extremes – whether of dullness or fury – successfully prevent feeling”

“I was sitting on the floor of the caravan. Janey came and put her arms round me, then she kissed me, really kissed me.”

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“And her clearness was like water, cool and deep and see-through right to the bottom. No guilt. No fear.”

i wish i could put into words how tender this made me feel, soooo beautiful

‘I’ll give you five minutes and I’ll be back in here and you’ll wish you’d never been born.’

But I have never wished that and I wasn’t going to start wishing it for him.”

feel the lesbian rageeeeeee

We always think the thing we need to transform everything – the miracle – is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves.

Jeanette Winterson, you are very dear to me

obsessed