“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
Zadie Smith livre White Teeth
Source: White Teeth
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Zadie Smith: Citations en anglais
“… the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”
Zadie Smith livre White Teeth
Variante: A past tense, future perfect kind of night.
Source: White Teeth (2000)
Zadie Smith livre White Teeth
Source: White Teeth
“You are never stronger… than when you land on the other side of despair.”
Zadie Smith livre White Teeth
Source: White Teeth
“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
Zadie Smith On Beauty
Unspecified edition, p. 424.
Source: On Beauty (2005)
“You don't have favorites among your children but you do have allies.”
Zadie Smith On Beauty
Unspecified edition, p. 167.
On Beauty (2005)
Variante: You don't have favorites among your children but you do have allies.
“Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.”
Zadie Smith On Beauty
Source: On Beauty
Zadie Smith livre White Teeth
Source: White Teeth (2000)
Contexte: 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.
Zadie Smith livre The Autograph Man
Source: The Autograph Man
“… They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.”
Zadie Smith livre White Teeth
Variante: Because this is the other thing about immigrants: they cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
Source: White Teeth (2000)
Zadie Smith livre White Teeth
Source: White Teeth
Zadie Smith livre White Teeth
Source: White Teeth
Zadie Smith livre Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
Source: Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
“Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.”
Zadie Smith livre White Teeth
Source: White Teeth
“This is what divorce is: Taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.”
Zadie Smith livre White Teeth
Source: White Teeth (2000)
