The World and Other Places: Stories
Jeanette Winterson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.”
“I live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning. At other times the line is so wired that it lights up the soles of my feet, gradually my whole body, until I am my own beacon, and I see then the beauty of newly created worlds, a form that is not random. A new beginning.”
“I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.”
“I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.”
“I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.”
“How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?”
“If everything I have become were not machine-made I might be able to take the risk of being human with you.”
“Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.”
“Come again?' She asked. Yes tomorrow, under the sodium street lights, under the tick of the clock. Under my obligations, my history, my fears, this now. This fizzy, giddy all consuming now. I will not let time lie to me. I will not listen to dead voices or unborn pain. "What if?" Has no power against 'what if not?' The not of you is unbearable. I must have you....”
“What is there to say about love ? You could sweep up all the words and stack them in the gutter and love wouldn't be any different, wouldn't feel any different, the hurt in the heart, the headachy desire that hardly submits to language. What we can't tame we talk about.”
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Book Keywords:
space, transition, time, love, chance, chaos, dreams
