She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two loves, but this, too, was great; sitting between his sister and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The golden age of Luncheon Vouchers ended ten yearsago. For ten years Mickey had been saying, "The goldenage of Luncheon Vouchers is… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Girls either wanted him or wanted to improve him, but most often a combination of the two. They wanted to improve him… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“There are two different kinds of glee club in this world. The first sing barbershop favourites and Gershwin tunes, they swing gently,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“They were married before they were friends, which is another way of saying: Their marriage was the occasion of their friendship. They… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. Im too old to go raving, but my fondest… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“It's a funny thing about the modern world. You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, "Yeah, he fucked off and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“[Forster] quotes approvingly from this discussion, from The Magic Flute [by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson] "Lord Buddha was your gospel true?" "True and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Pretty girls lie at the centre of straight culture, dyke culture, fag culture. They sell everything, they buy everything, they ruin great men and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Either everything is sacred or nothing is. And if he starts burning other people’s things, then he loses something sacred also. Everyone gets what’s… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“In short, it was precisely the kind of friendship and Englishman makes on holiday, that he can make only on holiday. A friendship that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
