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"That's where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations on the theme of escape. And they were nothing more than that -just dreams, just play. She'd been alone at the end of her dreams so many times before and never had God helped her escape her father, because God couldn't, because she would never escape her need to love him."
"I just want to get away from me."
"Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests."
"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."
Explore more quotes by Jeanette Winterson
"If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you."
"London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other."
"To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language."
"Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't."
"I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium."
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