Alicia

“I broke his Bible box into bits and lit a fire and laid his body beside it and felt where the bones were broken in his back and chest and legs and licked the blood from his mouth and tried to give him my breath and I would have given him one of my legs and one of my arms and one of my kidneys and half of my liver and four pints of my blood and all easy for I had already given him my heart.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods

“What is there to say about love ? You could sweep up all the words and stack them in the gutter and love wouldn't be any different, wouldn't feel any different, the hurt in the heart, the headachy desire that hardly submits to language. What we can't tame we talk about.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Yes I will come for you. Roll my strength into a ball for you. Throw myself across chance for you. I will be the bridge or the pulley because you are the dream.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories