Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Quotes

“Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“My needlework teacher suffered from a problem of vision. She recognised things according to expectation and environment. If you were in a particular place, you expected to see particular things. Sheep and hills, sea and fish; if there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs. Jones and talk about fishcakes. But most likely, she's do what most people do when confronted with something they don't understand. Panic.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding to fully exist.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“I thought no one was talking to me and the others thought I wasn't talking to them.”
― Jeanette Winterson