There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can... - Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

"There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name."

"I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line."

"I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line."

"There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain."

"In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie."