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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

"Magnificent . . . A tour de force of literature and love."Vogue "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is raucous. It hums with a dark refulgence from its first pages. . . . Singular and electric . . . [Winterson's] life wi

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Jeanette Winterson (10)

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

— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com

Tagged: Emotional, Feelings, controlling

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

— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com

Tagged: emotions, Bad Advice, Holding Back, Suppressing emotions, Unsaid Feelings

“We were not lovers, we were love.”

— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Lovers, Relationship

“Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version.”

— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Powerful, Desire, Strong, Bravery

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

— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com

Tagged: emotions, Happiness, Life

“Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love’s hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love.”

— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Poetry, strength, Powerful

“We were not lovers, we were love.”

— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Lovers

“Listen, we are human beings. Listen, we are inclined to love. Love is there, but we need to be taught how. We want to stand upright, we want to walk, but someone needs to hold our hand and balance us a bit, and guide us a bit, and scoop us up when we fall. Listen, we fall. Love is there but we have…”

— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Learning To Love, Teaching Yourself To Love, The Art Of Loving, Loving

“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”

— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Change, Losing, Gaining, Pain

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

— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com

Tagged: ENFP, Change, Movement, Moving On, Places