Quote by Zadie Smith Download Open image ““It hurts to look at what you can't have”” — Zadie Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“What hurts is to have no one to hold. What hurts is to be dead, and forced to survive. What hurts is that trying… — Ingrid Nickelsen Copy Share Image
“It hurts to see your loved one in pain, but it hurts more to see you cannot do anything about this pain.” — Namrata Copy Share Image
“Maybe having something good and then having to let it go is more painful that never knowing what you're missing” — Mia Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I'm just trying to prove it's not totally useless to be feeling it. I mean, pain just means something's broken. And maybe it can't… — Olivia Rivers Copy Share Image
“Once you identify what you lack then it's all you see anymore. Wanting something I couldn't have would only lead to unhappiness so I… — Lisa Mangum 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 had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust. — Zadie Smith Copy Share
“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 fatal effect on my self-esteem. When I find myself sitting at dinner next to someone who knows just as much about novels as I do but has somehow also found the mental space to adore and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share
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
