excerpts from sexing the cherry - Jeanette Winterson

'The future and the present and the past exist only in our minds, and form a distance the borders of each shrink and fade like the borders of hostile countries seen from a floating city in the sky. The river runs from one country to another without stopping. And even the most solid of things and the most real, the best loved and the well known, are the only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.

your emotions are not complex like mine, my dilemna is poetic
i love to see the sudden glide of wings spread out for prey and then dip and the noise like a lover in pain
i could stay and be unhappy and humilated
i could leave and be unhappy but dignified
i could live in hope and die of bitterness
i was no longer a reality, i was one of those things around him
i was the fence that needed to be removed
i was none of these things, but i became them


these were previously part of my actual blog, but i decided to remove them cause it was beginning to get too wordy and i changed the layout as well. these really struck me when i read them the first time, i picked up sexing the cherry because i was considering it as an s lit text, but i didnt in the end, neither did i use oranges arent the only fruit, but it remains my favourite book till date.