Michelle

“What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.”
― John Berger, The Shape of a Pocket

“You said, ‘Why do I frighten you?’
Frighten me? Yes you do frighten me. You act as though we will be together for ever. You act as though there is infinite pleasure and time without end. How can I know that? My experience has been that time always ends. In theory you are right, the quantum physicists are right, the romantics and the religious are right.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“Chaos is the penance for leisure.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“I had to leave. She would have died for my sake. Wasn’t it better for me to live a half life for her sake?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body