Zadie Smith: Trending quotes (page 4)

“Maybe it doesn't matter that life never blossomed into something larger than itself.”

“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.”

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

“Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The Guardian Interview 1 August 2013.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“He traced the genealogy of the feeling”

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