Zadie Smith Quotes

Ryan's freckles were a join-the-dot's enthusiast's wet dream.

It was in the shady groves of dictionaries that Jack fell in love.

A carefully preserved English accent also upped the fear factor.

… and catholics give out forgiveness at the same time politicians give out promises and whores give out.

Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.

[Q:] What kind of reader were you as a child? Which childhood books and authors stick with you most?
[A:] the writers that meant most to me: Alice Walker, Roald Dahl, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Noel Streatfeild, Andrew Salkey, L. Maud Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott. Toni Morrison because of The Black Book, which she edited — and I read, at a very delicate age, 9 or 10. But C. S. Lewis above all.

The thinnest covering of luck was on him like fresh dew. While he slipped in and out of consciousness, the position of the planets, the music of the spheres, the flap of a tiger moth's diaphanous wings in Central Africa, and a whole bunch of other stuff that makes shit happen had decided it was second-chance time for Archie.

… dressed all in yellow spreading warmth and the promise of sex.

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

The more blessed she felt on earth, the more rarely she turned to heaven.

So we have to be a bit more, I mean, military about it, like plan.

But to me, an exercise in style is not a superficial matter – our lives are also an exercise in style.

He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.

You always wanted to make it clear you weren't like the rest of us. You're still doing it.

But why do they always have to be laughing and making a song-and-dance about everything? I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.