Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories
6 quotes
"Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing."
"I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone."
"I have sometimes sacrificed freedom in order to belong, but more often I have given up all hope of belonging."
"In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance."
"Why doesn't she want me? The sun is rising now, but it is 93,000,000 miles away and I can't get warm... She won't be cold. She has the sun inside her."
"Look at all that rubbish," she said, watching the electric van slowly whirr from bin to bin, little men in gloves removing it all."They're taking it away," I said. "Where to?" she said. "It just gets moved around dearie, that's all."