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You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people,

You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

Jeanette Winterson
Love, Pain, Pregnancy

Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.

Jeanette Winterson
Pain, Mouths, Creatures
"Shafts of sunlight". www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here. Some people think you can have your cake and eat it. The cake goes mouldy and they choke on what's left. Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.

Jeanette Winterson
Pain, Heart, Reality
Jeanette Winterson (1985). “Oranges are Not the Only Fruit”

What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.

Jeanette Winterson
Dream, Pain, Healing
"The Powerbook". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2000.

No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's no reason to stay your hand. Your eyes can look on death and not tremble. It's the heart that betrays us, makes us weep, makes us bury our friends when we should be marching ahead. It's the heart that sickens us at night and makes us hate who we are. It's the heart that sings old songs and brings memories of warm days.

Jeanette Winterson
Life, Song, Pain

The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.

Jeanette Winterson
Dream, Pain
Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.80, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.

Jeanette Winterson
Pain, Moving, Stories
Source: www.newstatesman.com

It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It can also be a pain in the arse because it gets in the way of the quiet, contemplative time every writer needs, but which is particularly important when you are a new writer finding your own voice, and pursuing the things that interest you.

Jeanette Winterson
Pain, Winning, Voice

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