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Laurelei

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Laurelei’s Quotes

“Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

tags: children, family, faults, love, parents

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“I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries

tags: emotions, feelings, head-and-heart

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“I knew clearly that I could not rebuild my life or put it back together in any way. I had no idea what might lie on the other side of this place. I only knew that the before-world was gone forever.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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“I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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“Why do you go cold?" He kept his voice gentle.
"I - I've analysed it. Because I have the sort of good looks I have. People treat you as a kind of ;possession; if you have a certain sort of good looks. Not lively, but sort of clear-cut and-"
"Beautiful."
"Yes, why not. You can become a property or an idol. I don't want that. It kept happening"
"It needn't."
"Even you - drew back - when we met. I expect that now. I use it."
"Yes. But you don't want - do you - to be alone always. Or do you?"
"I feel as she did. I keep my defences up because I must go on ;doing my work;. I know how she felt about her unbroken egg. Her self-possession, her autonomy. I don't want to think of that going. You understand?”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

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