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The Gap of Time QUOTES

The Gap of Time QUOTES

1 " Zel so often put himself outside of where he wanted to be and then looked in dumbly through the window of his longing, hurt and beaten and knowing that he had hurt and beaten himself but still he did it, over and over. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

2 " And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with? "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

3 " One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

4 " ...and what is memory but a rope slung across time? "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

5 " And the world goes on regardless of joy or despair or one woman's fortune or one man's loss. And we can't know the lives of others. And we can't know our own lives beyond the details we can manage. And the things that change us forever happen without us knowing they would happen. And the moment that looks like the rest is the one where hearts are broken or healed. And time that runs so steady and sure runs wild outside the clocks. It takes so little time to change a lifetime and it takes a lifetime to understand the change. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

6 " The important things happen by chance. Only the rest gets planned. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

7 " The past is a grenade that explodes when thrown. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

8 " I read that the body remakes itself every seven years. Every cell. Even the bones rebuild themselves like coral. Why then do we remember what should be long gone? What’s the point of every scar and humiliation? What is the point of remembering the good times when they are gone? I love you. I miss you. You are dead. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

9 " And the world goes on regardless of joy or despair or one woman's fortune or one man's loss. And we can't know the lives of others. And we can't know our own lives beyond the details we can manage. And the things that change us forever happen without us knowing they would happen. And the moment that looks like the rest is the one where hearts are broken or healed. And time that runs so steady and sure runs wild outside of the clocks. It takes so little time to change a lifetime and it takes a lifetime to understand the change. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

10 " You were loved then and you are loved now. Isn’t that enough? "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

11 " I guess I'm afraid of not being like other people. No, that's not true. I'm not afraid of not being like other people. I'm afraid I won't find anybody who doesn't mind me not being like other people. I'm not ambitious for money or power. I want to find some real way to live. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

12 " I've thought of killing myself many times. I don't do it, not because I am a coward, but because it would be easier for me to be dead. What's my life? I make money and I make memories. That's not a life. I don't kill myself because living is my own life sentence. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

13 " And the world goes on regardless of joy or despair or one woman!s fortune or one man!s loss. And we can!t know our own lives beyond the details we can manage. And the things that change us forever happen without us knowing they would happen. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

14 " I walked round the block thinking I’d think about it, but my legs were heading home, and sometimes you have to accept that your heart knows what to do. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

15 " Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.”’ That’s from the Song of Solomon. We sing what we know. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

16 " He doesn't take a photo or a video because he wants to remember — by which he means he wants to misremember because the moment is made up of what the camera can't capture. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

17 " The missingness of the missing. We know what that feels like. Every endeavor, every kiss, every stab in the heart, every letter home, every leaving, is a ransack of what's in front of us in the service of what's lost. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

18 " Sometimes it doesn't matter that there was any time before this time. Sometimes it doesn't matter that it's night or day or now or then. Sometimes where you are is enough. It's not that time stops or that it hasn't started. This is time. You are here. This caught moment opening into a lifetime. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

19 " En de tijd die zo gestaag en zo zeker voorbijgaat slaat voorbij de klokken op hol. Het kost zo weinig tijd om een leven te veranderen en het kost een heel leven om die verandering te begrijpen. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time

20 " In the sky, Planet Moon is 239,000 miles away. That’s not far when you remember that the sun is 93 million miles away. "

― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time