Laurelei

“Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“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?

“I had thought about everything carefully before I had agreed to him. I had made every preparation, every calculation, except for those two essentials that could not be calculated; his heart and mine.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories

“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?