Quotes from the book Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. 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 erased by anyone but death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no one else can fit. Why would I want them to?

—Jeanette Winterson in Written on the Body

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Jeanette Winterson (born 27 August 1959) is an English author.

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