"Written on the Body" Quotes
"Written on the Body" by Jeanette Winterson is a lyrical exploration of love, desire, and obsession told through the reflections of a genderless narrator on their passionate affair with a married woman.
fiction | 196 pages | Published in 1994
Quotes
Through the prism of a lover's body, every word becomes a hologram of the body within which it escaped confinement.
The whispering prelude flares into a shout, grabbing the senses. It is a brush through your bloodstream.
No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
Sometimes, when you're angry, you reach a point where you just stop being angry.
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects.
No one wants me to see that this is what it feels like to be loved.
Every story I tell has the same ending: the bodies falling.
Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying.
To disappear into art. To disappear into this art.
Our eyes can’t see how invisible we are.
