Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, a... - Jeanette Winterson

"What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you."

"The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark."

"Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence."

"Language is a finding-place not a hiding place."

"The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down."