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“My mother's eyes were like cold stars. She belonged in a different sky.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“And here's the shock -- when you risk it, when you do the right thing, when you arrive at the borders of common sense and cross into unknown territory, leaving behind you all the familiar smells and lights, you do not experience great joy and huge energy.
You are unhappy. Things get worse.
It is a time of mourning. Loss. Fear. We bullet ourselves through with questions. And then we feel shot and wounded.
And then all the cowards come out and say, 'See, I told you so.'
In fact, they told you nothing.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“My experience has been that times always ends. In theory, you are right, the quantum physicists are right, the religious and romantics are right. Time without end. In practice we both wear a watch.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver