Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Home

• Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Libro, Hogar, Puertas

• The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Literature, Might

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.94, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Mean, Night

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.170, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework and the kids. That's not the kind of heroism they enjoy.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hate, Hero, Kids

  1989 Sexing the Cherry.

• ¿Qué debo hacer con lo salvaje y lo manso? El corazón salvaje que quiere ser libre, y el corazón manso que quiere volver a casa. Quiero que me abracen. No quiero que te acerques demasiado. Quiero que me cojas en brazos y me lleves a casa por las noches. No quiero decirte dónde estoy. Quiero guardar un lugar entre las rocas donde nadie pueda encontrarme. Quiero estar contigo.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Heart, Night

• In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hogar, Teléfonos, Luz

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

• Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone’s little home.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Home, Views

• 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

• La verdad es que puedes dividir tu corazón de muchas maneras interesantes: un poco aquí, un poco allá, la mayor parte guardado en casa, una parte acuñada para un revoloteo. Pero el amor atraviesa las matemáticas de la mente. La longitud del amor parte el corazón en dos: el corazón en el que estás y el corazón en el que quieres estar. ¿Cómo vas a curar tu corazón cuando el amor lo ha partido en dos?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hogar, Corazón, Dos

• I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Home, Rereading

• ¿Qué debo hacer con lo salvaje y lo manso? El corazón salvaje que quiere ser libre, y el corazón manso que quiere volver a casa.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Heart, Want

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Death, Home, Class

• Cuando me fui de casa a los dieciséis años me compré una pequeña alfombra. Era mi mundo enrollable. En cualquier habitación, en cualquier lugar temporal que tuviera, desenrollaba la alfombra. Era un mapa de mí misma. Invisibles para los demás, pero guardados en la alfombra, estaban todos los lugares en los que había estado, durante unas semanas, durante unos meses. La primera noche en un lugar nuevo me gustaba tumbarme en la cama y mirar la alfombra para recordarme que tenía lo que necesitaba, aunque lo que tenía era muy poco. A veces hay que vivir en lugares precarios y temporales. Lugares inadecuados. Lugares equivocados. A veces el lugar seguro no te ayuda.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Home, Night

• When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I heard him singing to himself without me, and when he tended the garden it was not for me. He was courteous and polite; he enjoyed being at home, but in the fantasy of his home I was not the one who sat opposite him and laughed at his jokes. He didn't want to change anything; he liked his life. The only thing he wanted to change was me.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Marido, Hogar, Ojo

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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