The World And Other Places - Jeanette Winterson
«What we can't tame, we talk about.»
ATLANTIC CROSSING
«No safety without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.»
ORION
«Call it a wild perversity or a wild optimism, but they were right, our ancestors, to celebrate what they feared.
What I fear I avoid. What I fear I pretend doesn't exist. What I fear is quietly killing me. Would there were a festival of my fears, a ritual burning what is coward in me, what is lost in me.»
THE GREEN MAN
«Prayer? Well yes. I pray as you do: 'Don't let this happen.' 'Please let it be all right.' Improvisations of need addressed to who knows where. God the horoscope column, god the tea-leaf, god the lucky lottery numbers, god when I die with the lid screwed down, this god forseken life.»
«We have to cope don't we? Get on with life, pull ourselves together, be positive, look ahead. Therapy or drugs will be freely offered. I can get help. We live in a very caring society.
It cares so much that we have all be seen to cope.»
«The vulnerability of it. The insolence. Isn't that the winning human combination. Isn't that us. tumbling through the years? To suffer. To dare. Now, sufferers don't dare and the darers don't suffer. Perhaps that's what's wrong with us all. Wrong with now, sharded people that we are.»
A GREEN SQUARE