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Jeanette Winterson
“The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all live, it’s the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It’s like reading a book with the first few pages missing. It’s like arriving after curtain up. The feeling that something is missing never, ever leaves you – and it can’t, and it shouldn’t, because something is missing.”
Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson
“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.”
Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson
“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”
Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson
“Pursuing happiness, and I did, and still do, is not at all the same as being happy- which I think is fleeting, dependent on circumstances, and a bit bovine.

If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes.

The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is lifelong, and it is not goal-centred.

What you are pursuing is meaning- a meaningful life. There's the hap- the fate, the draw that is yours, and it isn't fixed, but changing the course of the stream, or dealing new cards, whatever metaphor you want to use- that's going to take a lot of energy. There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realize that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.”
Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson
“That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.”
Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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