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> [It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zo-heller/it-s-always-a-disappointing-business-confronting-my-own-reflection-my/)

[Zoë Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zo-heller/)

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## More by Zoë Heller

> [“All my life I have been the sort of person in whom people confide. And all my life I have been flattered by this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zo-heller/all-my-life-i-have-been-the-sort-of-person-in-whom-people-confide-and/)

[Zoë Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zo-heller/)

> [It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zo-heller/it-s-similar-to-the-way-you-feel-cuddling-an-infant-or-a-kitten-when/)

[Zoë Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zo-heller/)

> [“Music, together with certain sorts of majestic landscape, had a well-known tendency to induce such faux-sublime moments: artificial intimations of transcendent truths, grandiose hunches…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zo-heller/music-together-with-certain-sorts-of-majestic-landscape-had-a-well/)

[Zoe Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zo-heller/)

> [We are bound by the secrets we share.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zo-heller/we-are-bound-by-the-secrets-we-share/)

[Zoë Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zo-heller/)

> [“Being alone is not the most awful thing in the world. You visit your museums and cultivate your interests and remind yourself how lucky…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zo-heller/being-alone-is-not-the-most-awful-thing-in-the-world-you-visit-your/)

[Zoë Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zo-heller/)

> [For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zo-heller/for-most-people-honesty-is-such-an-unusual-departure-from-their/)

[Zoë Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zo-heller/)

> [Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zo-heller/somewhere-between-sanity-and-madness-lays-a-fine-line-for-some-it-is/)

[Zoë Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zo-heller/)

> [“But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zo-heller/but-that-i-should-have-ended-up-in-a-place-like-this-seems-too-custom/)

[Zoë Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zo-heller/)

> [It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zo-heller/it-s-hard-to-resist-the-magical-thinking-that-the-work-habits-of/)

[Zoë Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zo-heller/)

> [“...elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zo-heller/elegance-loses-its-power-in-the-presence-of-the-properly-stupid/)

[Zoë Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zo-heller/)

> [“The conclusion of Dowell's narrative offers not a resolution, so much as a plangent confirmation of complexities. While Ford would certainly have agreed with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zo-heller/the-conclusion-of-dowell-s-narrative-offers-not-a-resolution-so-much/)

[Zoë Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zo-heller/)

> [“I could feel Monika nudging me furiously at this point, but I refused to look at her. I wasn’t feeling particularly reverent about my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zo-heller/i-could-feel-monika-nudging-me-furiously-at-this-point-but-i-refused/)

[Zoe Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zo-heller/)

> [“Sheba has often told me that she thinks there's a rhythm to married life, an ebb and flow in the pleasure that a couple…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zo-heller/sheba-has-often-told-me-that-she-thinks-there-s-a-rhythm-to-married/)

[Zoë Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zo-heller/)

> [“If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zo-heller/if-this-was-cynical-then-we-must-allow-that-all-courtship-is-cynical/)

[Zoë Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zo-heller/)

> [“He had made a fairly unambiguous pass at her, as she was getting out of the cab. But event that had come to nothing.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zo-heller/he-had-made-a-fairly-unambiguous-pass-at-her-as-she-was-getting-out/)

[Zoë Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zo-heller/)

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