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Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?"

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you."

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.




Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out."

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you."

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.




Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say."

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping."

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "Memory loss is one way of coping with damage."

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.




Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "She was a monster, but she was my monster."

She was a monster, but she was my monster.



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice."

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way."

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead."

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't."

We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.




Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "Our contradictions are never so to ourselves."

Our contradictions are never so to ourselves.



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "Most kids grow up leaving something out for Santa at Christmas time when he comes down the chimney. I used to make presents for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."

Most kids grow up leaving something out for Santa at Christmas time when he comes down the chimney. I used to make presents for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say."

When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?"

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery where you had company and sympathy but your thoughts were your own."

The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery where you had company and sympathy but your thoughts were your own.



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "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."

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, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance."

the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance.



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "They sounded like intestines, only on the outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not being able to go to church. Horrid."

They sounded like intestines, only on the outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not being able to go to church. Horrid.



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?"

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "Only later, much later, too late, did I understand how small she (Mrs Winterson) was to herself. The baby nobody picked up. The uncarried child still inside her."

Only later, much later, too late, did I understand how small she (Mrs Winterson) was to herself. The baby nobody picked up. The uncarried child still inside her.



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets."

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.




Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.But this was diff"

I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.But this was diff



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "There are two kinds of writing the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don't want to go. You look where you don't want to look."

There are two kinds of writing the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don't want to go. You look where you don't want to look.



Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Quotes: "A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is."

A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.