i told myself as hero like any shipwreck story. it was a shipwreck, and me thrown on the coastline of humankind, and finding it not so hamna, and rarely kind. (Jeanette Winterson)

i told myself as hero like any shipwreck story. it was a shipwreck, and me thrown on the coastline of humankind, and finding it not so hamna, and rarely kind.

Jeanette Winterson

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