Michelle

“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

“When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy

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

“How long before the shouting starts? How long before the tears and the accusations and the pain? That specific stone n the stomach pain when you lose something you haven't got round to valuing? Why is the measure of love loss?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body