Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Never say never, I find I get claustrophobic in a relationship.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

To be possessed when you are a child is just a wonderful feeling. It makes you feel safe. It makes you feel loved. But later if anyone tried to possess me - oh boy, I was out of there.

Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.

Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other; or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one--neither clothes nor age; neither sex nor sexual preference; race nor mind-set.

You know," I told him on our wedding night, "I'm just as much me when I'm with you, as I am without you." And because Hardy understood what I meant, he pulled me into his arms, against his heart.

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

I just love my privacy.

I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.

In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.

I don't want anyone part of my love life besides me and the person I'm loving.

I think everybody has the right to a private life.

It's great to have a place of my own, but I still see my family often, as we are very close.

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

When it's a love scene with someone you actually love, there's no feeling like, 'Can I touch him here? Can I touch him there?' You know what your boundaries are - or what they aren't, I suppose.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

I want a man in my life, not in my house.