Departure Quote 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…

— Zoë 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...

— Zoë 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…

— Zoe Heller

We are bound by the secrets we share.

— Zoë 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…

— Zoë 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…

— Zoë 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…

— Zoë Heller

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

— Zoë Heller

“...elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid...”

— Zoë 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…

— Zoë 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…

— Zoe 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…

— Zoë Heller