Author of quotes: Janet Winterson

I used to be a hopeless romantic. I'm still a hopeless romantic. I believed that love is the highest value. I still believe that love is the highest value. I hope to be happy. I don't imagine that I'd find love, no matter what she meant, and hoping that if I do, I will from her happy. I don't think love is the answer / solution. For me love is a force of nature, powerful as the Sun, necessary, impersonal, huge, impossible to burn, but it warms, dries, gives life. And when it burns out, the planet dies.
My little life revolves in an orbit of love. I don't dare to approach. I'm not a mystic seeking last rites. I never leave the house without sunscreen. I'm protecting myself.
But today, when the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is just a shadow, I know in real life that I remember that fingering is not a home, Bank account, awards or titles. I remember the love - all the love: this primer, this sunrise, for the day at the river, to the stranger who met her in the café. Even to him those hardest to love, because love and selfishness are not one and the same. To be proud is easy. Love me such what is, is hard. It is not surprising that I wonder if this could be you.
But love is something that takes up. On this hot road with barbed wire on the sides to goats did not stray from the fold, for a moment I had an Epiphany, why am I here: a sure sign that I immediately lose found.
I felt wholeness.