Ali Smith citations

“Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.”

“Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.”

“To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.”

“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.”

“Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.”

“Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.”

“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”

“remember you must live.
remember you most love.
remainder you mist leaf.”