What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting… - Jeanette Winterson

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What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.

Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson (born 27 August 1959) is a British novelist.

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