“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
Unspecified edition, p. 424.
Source: On Beauty (2005)
Zadie Smith: Quotes about love
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Zadie Smith book White Teeth
Source: White Teeth (2000)
Context: You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, 'Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me.' Now how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? And particularly if they replace us with a god, or a weeping madonna, or the face of Christ in a ciabatta roll—then we call them crazy. Deluded. Regressive. We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
“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)
“She loved you in the morning because the day was new.”
Zadie Smith book The Autograph Man
Source: The Autograph Man
“It was in the shady groves of dictionaries that Jack fell in love.”
Unspecified edition, p. 54.
On Beauty (2005)