You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there.

Jeanette Winterson
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  2. Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make. - Euripides

  3. We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged - Heinrich Heine

  4. It is always betterto avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this worldmeans waiting for our end. Let whoever canwin glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark. - Seamus Heaney

  5. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

More Quotes By Jeanette Winterson
  1. You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap...

  2. As your lover describes you, so you are.

  3. I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

  4. What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop...

  5. Why is the measure of love loss?

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