“All my life I have been the sort of person in whom people confide. And all my life I have been flattered… — Zoë Heller Disillusionment Copy Share Image
It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd… — Zoë Heller Cuddling Copy Share Image
“Music, together with certain sorts of majestic landscape, had a well-known tendency to induce such faux-sublime moments: artificial intimations of transcendent truths,… — Zoe Heller Music Copy Share Image
“Being alone is not the most awful thing in the world. You visit your museums and cultivate your interests and remind yourself… — Zoë Heller Children Copy Share Image
For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity… — Zoë Heller Departure Copy Share Image
Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to… — Zoë Heller Balance Copy Share Image
“But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of… — Zoë Heller Fate Copy Share Image
It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness. — Zoë Heller Great writers Copy Share Image
“...elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid...” — Zoë Heller Beauty Copy Share Image
“The conclusion of Dowell's narrative offers not a resolution, so much as a plangent confirmation of complexities. While Ford would certainly have… — Zoë Heller Introduction Copy Share Image
“I could feel Monika nudging me furiously at this point, but I refused to look at her. I wasn’t feeling particularly reverent… — Zoe Heller Faith Copy Share Image
“Sheba has often told me that she thinks there's a rhythm to married life, an ebb and flow in the pleasure that… — Zoë Heller Ebb and flow Copy Share Image
“If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.” — Zoë Heller Courtship Copy Share Image
“He had made a fairly unambiguous pass at her, as she was getting out of the cab. But event that had come… — Zoë Heller Attraction Copy Share Image
It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but… — Zoë Heller Atheist Copy Share Image
“But about the drip drip of long-haul, no-end-in-sight solitude, they know nothing. They don't know what it is to construct an entire… — Zoe Heller Depression Copy Share Image
“There it was again - the perverse refusal to acknowledge my hostility. She seemed to me like some magical lake in a… — Zoë Heller Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“I mean, what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there's nothing left.” — Zoë Heller Romance Copy Share Image
“Meir, let me ask you something,” I said after a while. “Sure.” “Do you think I’m a bad person?” “Only God knows… — Zoe Heller Bad man Copy Share Image
...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left. — Zoë Heller Delusion Copy Share Image
I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail… — Zoë Heller Book Copy Share Image
I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but… — Zoë Heller Able Copy Share Image
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… — Zoë Heller Body Copy Share Image
