#written on the body

[derangedrhythms]

Jeanette Winterson, from 'Written on the Body'

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[orpheuslament]

Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson

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[missinyouiskillingme]

„You'll get over it...“ It's the cliches 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 never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to greive over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

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[strykerlancer]

“This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”

— Jeanette Winterson, from “Written on the Body.”

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[soracities]

Physicists are speculating on what might happen if we could lodge ourselves on the crater sides of [a black hole]. It seems that due to the particularities of the event horizon we could watch history pass and never become history ourselves. We could be trapped eternally observing with no-one to tell. Perhaps that’s were God is.

Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

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[feral-ballad]

i think to myself at least once a day “why is the measure of love loss?” and i rock back & forth in my chair like an abandoned child with tears in my eyes. why is love always dappled with a a sense of loss? why do i have to lose everything that i love? why do i have to lose you? why why why why ….

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[theclassicsreader]

Why is the measure of love loss?

— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

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[heavensghost]

From written on the body by Jeanette Winterson

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[diana-andraste]

Heinz Hajek-Halke, c. 1931

"I would eat my way into perdition to taste you." Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

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[stavroginas]

— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

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[derangedrhythms]

You affect me in ways I can’t quantify or contain. All I can measure is the effect, and the effect is that I am out of control. 

Jeanette Winterson, from ‘Written on the Body’

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[orpheuslament]

Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson

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[thequietabsolute]

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. 

－Jeannette Winterson, from Written on the Body. 1992.

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[libraryoflanie]

“Let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.”

Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

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[soracities]

Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. Do the dead find peace beyond the rattle of the world? What peace is there for us whose best love cannot return them even for a day? I raise my head to the door and think I will see you in the frame. I know it is your voice in the corridor but when I run outside the corridor is empty. There is nothing I can do that will make any difference. The last word was yours.

Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

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[feral-ballad]

I felt I was becoming less present every day.

Jeanette Winterson, from Written on the Body

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