This is Kindly Light calling Manchester, come in Manchester, this is Kindly Light.

    — Jeanette Winterson, from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (thanks, dimickley)

It was not too late.

    — Jeanette Winterson, from Art and Lies, with thanks to theturnofevents

They walk down into the closure of the forest, until they too become part of the story.

    — Jeanette Winterson, “Turn of the World”, a short story in The World and Other Places

They are all in there and I am here, caught in my house, room by room, unable to find the only room where there is peace.

    — Jeanette Winterson, “Disappearance II”, a short story in The World and Other Places

Sleep now and hope to dream.

    — Disappearance I by Jeanette Winterson, in The World and Other Places

My own heart stopped as she turned and walked away up the empty road.

    — The Green Man by Jeanette Winterson, in The World and Other Places