Frankissstein: A Love Story
Jeanette Winterson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I discover that grief means living with someone who is no longer there.”
“I was never bored except in the company of others.”
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality. That is why we invent stories, I said. And what if we are the story we invent? said Shelley.”
“Humans will be like decayed gentry. We'll have the glorious mansion called the past that is falling into disrepair. We'll have a piece of land that we didn't look after very well called the planet. And we'll have some nice clothes and a lot of stories. We'll be fading aristocracy. We'll be Blanche Dubois in a moth-eaten silk dress. We'll be Marie Antionette with no cake.”
“I would never pull down a church! I adore churches. It is what happens inside them that I detest.”
“The Future is Now. That annoys me because if the future is now, where is the present?”
“I'm a woman. And I'm a man. That's how it is for me. I am in a body that I prefer. But the past, my past, is not subject to surgery. I didn't do it to distance myself from myself. I did it to get nearer to myself.”
“And yet it is the language of our thoughts that tortures us more than any excess or deprivation of nature”
“They never say, I love you with all my kidneys. I love you with my liver. They never say, my gall bladder is yours and yours alone. No one says, she broke my appendix.”
“I reflected that without language, or before language, the mind cannot comfort itself.”
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