Quotes from Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
"This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, lovr is just outside it, looking for a way to break in."
"Love is an unarmed intruder."
"'I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.'"
"I unlatched the shutters. The light was as intense as a love affair. I was blinded, delighted, not just because it was warm and wonderful, but because nature measures nothing. Nobody needs this much sunlight. Nobody needs droughts, volcanoes, monsoons, tornadoes either but we get them, because our world is as extravagant as a world can be. We ae the ones obsessed by measurement. The world just pours out."
"I used to be a hopeless romantic. I am still a hopeless romantic. I used to believe that live was the highest value. I still believe that love is the highest value. I don't expect to be happy. I don't imagine I will find love, whatever that means, or if I do find it, it will make me happy. I don't think of love as the answer or the solution. I think of love as a force of nature--as strong as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming, as drought-making as it is life-giving. And when it burns out, the planet dies."
"There is so little life, and it is fraught with chance. We meet, we don't meet, we take the wrong turning and still bump into each other. We conscientiously choose the 'right road' and it leads nowhere."
Enjoy the quotes, all. It was a decent book and an easy read. A little confusing, but nice language.
"Love is an unarmed intruder."
"'I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.'"
"I unlatched the shutters. The light was as intense as a love affair. I was blinded, delighted, not just because it was warm and wonderful, but because nature measures nothing. Nobody needs this much sunlight. Nobody needs droughts, volcanoes, monsoons, tornadoes either but we get them, because our world is as extravagant as a world can be. We ae the ones obsessed by measurement. The world just pours out."
"I used to be a hopeless romantic. I am still a hopeless romantic. I used to believe that live was the highest value. I still believe that love is the highest value. I don't expect to be happy. I don't imagine I will find love, whatever that means, or if I do find it, it will make me happy. I don't think of love as the answer or the solution. I think of love as a force of nature--as strong as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming, as drought-making as it is life-giving. And when it burns out, the planet dies."
"There is so little life, and it is fraught with chance. We meet, we don't meet, we take the wrong turning and still bump into each other. We conscientiously choose the 'right road' and it leads nowhere."
Enjoy the quotes, all. It was a decent book and an easy read. A little confusing, but nice language.