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

"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."

"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."