"I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them."

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Source : Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jeanette Winterson

#Cutting Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.”
“One kiss, I was totally hooked.”
“Unless we hear very strictly with great faith to the order of our Spiritual Master, we will not understand what is the mercy of Krishna and how it is coming upon us.”
“Forgiveness. It is beneficial to forgive but better not to condemn in the first place.”
“Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.”

Source : Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.5, VM eBooks
“Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.”

Source : Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”
“Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.”
“They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.”

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