Heart Matters

“It may be that you are settled in another place, it may be that you are happy, but the one who took your heart wields final power.” 

― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (1987)

"I want you to come to me without a past. Those lines you’ve learned, forget them. Forget that you’ve been here before in other bedrooms in other places. Come to me new. Never say you love me until that day when you have proved it."

― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body (1992)

"Love wounds. There is no love that does not pierce through the hands and feet. Love’s exquisite happiness is also love’s exquisite pain. I do not seek pain but there is pain. I do not seek suffering, but there is suffering. It is better not to flinch, not to try and avoid those things in love’s direction. It is not easy, this love, but only the impossible is worth the effort."

― Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook (2000)