Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Bones

• Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I’m free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeon’s wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wall, Home, Thinking

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.120, Random House

• ¿Dónde empezó el amor?¿Qué ser humano miró a otro y vio en su rostro los bosques y el mar? ¿Hubo un día en que, exhausto y cansado, arrastrando comida a casa, con los brazos cortados y llenos de cicatrices, viste flores amarillas y, sin saber lo que hacías, las cogiste porque te quiero? En el registro fósil de nuestra existencia no hay rastro de amor. No se encuentra guardado en la corteza terrestre, esperando a ser descubierto. Los largos huesos de nuestros antepasados no muestran nada de sus corazones.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Flower, Love You, Home

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.179, HMH

• What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spread the web of my hand until it caught against your throat. You asked me if I wanted to strangle you. No, I wanted to fit you, not just in the obvious ways but in so many indentations.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hands, Thumbs, Way

• Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly, weight into weightlessness, nowhere to fall. As you lay on your back paddling in space you might notice your feet had fled your head. You are stretching slowly slowly, getting longer, your joints are slipping away from their usual places. There is no connection between your shoulder and your arm. You will break up bone by bone, fractured from who you are, drifting away now, the centre cannot hold.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fall, Law, Two

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