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“He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

“Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.”

Zadie Smith book The Autograph Man

Source: The Autograph Man

“Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

On Beauty

“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.”

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

White Teeth (2000)

“Is there anything more likely to take the shine off an affair that when the lover strikes up a convivial relationship with the lovee's mother.”

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

White Teeth (2000)

“His death is like the soft down on the back of your hand, passing unnoticed in the firmest of handshakes, though the slightest breeze makes every damn one of the tiny hairs stand on end.”

Zadie Smith book The Autograph Man

The Autograph Man (2002)

“The Guardian Interview 1 August 2013.”

Zadie Smith

Attributed

“.. and the devil won another easy hand in God's poker game.”

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

White Teeth (2000)

“He talked and talked, the kind of talking you do to stave off the inevitable physical desire. The kind of talk that only increases it.”

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

White Teeth (2000)

“His mind was a small thing with big holes through which passions regularly seeped out.”

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

White Teeth (2000)

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

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

White Teeth (2000)

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

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

White Teeth (2000)

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

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

White Teeth (2000)

“A carefully preserved English accent also upped the fear factor.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Unspecified edition, p. 155.
On Beauty (2005)

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

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Unspecified edition, p. 54.
On Beauty (2005)

“He traced the genealogy of the feeling”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Unspecified edition, p. 179.
On Beauty (2005)

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

Zadie Smith

Source: Penguin Books 2013, p. 278.