The Daylight Gate Quotes

“I think we are worlds compressed into human form.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“He scarred her arm...but she did not care because she loved him and she knew that love leaves a wound that leaves a scar.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“But, Mistress, do not be seen to stray too far from the real that is clear to others, or you may stand accused of the real that is clear to you.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“He would love her if she were a wolf that tore out his heart. And he wondered what that said about love.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“Love is as strong as death.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“Only humans can know what it means to strip a human being of being human.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“If there is another life he will find her there.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“Are you like all other men after all? The poor should have no justice, just as they have no food, no decent shelter, no regular livelihood? Is that how your saviour Jesus treated the poor?”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“The dark forest looked on fire. The trees were lit up like funeral pyres. She thought she saw bodies strapped to the trees, burning, burning, burning.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“Witchery popery popery witchery – all the same thing.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“Eating was easy. Thinking was hard.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“El amor es tan fuerte como la muerte.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“el amor deja una herida que a su vez deja una cicatriz.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“You are stubborn,’ said Roger Nowell. ‘I am not tame,’ said Alice Nutter.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“Shakespeare,” he thought as he scribbled away. “Foolish fancy. This is life as it is lived.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“Well done, my fine fellow out of my womb. What have you gained? Nothing! And oh, what have you lost? Everything!”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“I shall have nowt to talk to now the baby is boiled.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“We live as best we may in a world of worms.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“In the cell was a rack, a winch, a furnace, a set of branding irons, a pot for melting wax, nails of different lengths. A thumbscrew, a pair of flesh-tongs, heavy tweezers, a set of surgical instruments, a series of small metal trays, ropes, wire, preparations of quicklime, a hood and a blindfold.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“Let me read to you,” said Roger Nowell. “It is a night for reading.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“Shakespeare shook his head and sunk his chin into his ruff, making him look more owl-like than ever. “I have written about other worlds often enough. I have said what I can say. There are many kinds of reality. This is but one kind.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate

“I have ridden out all the storms,” said Shakespeare, “even the ones I wrote myself. Here, look, it begins…”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate