Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

There are some people who make you feel less lonely.

You need to feel loved, and that is what I feel at City.

I like someone who can make me laugh and can make me feel secure.

but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.

Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

I realized that there were times when we talked not because we needed to communicate anything important, but simply because we each drew comfort from the other's voice.

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.

The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff. Waxilliam: And? Wayne: And I just couldn't leave you to a fate like that...I'm too good a friend to let a mate of mine die in such a terrible situation. Waxilliam: Comfortable? Wayne: No. Boring.

Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.

I do wanna get married. It just sounds great. You get to go grocery shopping together, rent videos, and the kissing and the hugging and the kissing and the hugging under the cozy covers. Mmmm! But sometimes I worry that I don't wanna get married as much as I want to get dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough. That might feel pretty good, too.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

He's going to be okay," said Quentin. "He has to. He's Tybalt. You'd be all weird and irritating if he wasn't around." "Weird and irritating?" I raised an eyebrow. "What gives you that idea?" Quentin shrugged. "That's already how you get when he isn't around.