Zadie Smith: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.”

“This is what divorce is: Taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.”

“The future's another country, man… And I still ain't got a passport.”

“Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.”

“The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.”

“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.”

“We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.”

“I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.”

“It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy”

“She loved you in the morning because the day was new.”

“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.”

“No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Becauseis one of the magical fantasy words likeandandthat have now passed into language.”

“Full stories are as rare as honesty.”

“She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon… and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune.”

“She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.”

“Perhaps sex isn't of the body at all. Perhaps it is a function of language.”

“Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.”

“Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison.”

“For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.”