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“I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

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

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

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

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

Source: White Teeth (2000)

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

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

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

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

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

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

Zadie Smith book NW

Source: NW

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

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

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

Zadie Smith book The Autograph Man

Source: The Autograph Man

“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.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

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Source: On Beauty (2005)

“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.”

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“Full stories are as rare as honesty.”

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“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.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

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

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

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

Zadie Smith book NW

Source: NW

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

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

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

Zadie Smith book NW

Source: NW

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

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

Source: White Teeth