Hannah Baggott

“The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

“Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.”
― Jeanette Winterson