Quotes from Zadie Smith

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“I am seized by two contradictory feelings: there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable for a moment; there is so much shit in the world that it is incredible we are ever happy for a moment.”
― Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays

“She did what girls generally do when they don’t feel the part: she dressed it instead.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“Perhaps sex isn’t of the body at all. Perhaps it is a function of language.”
― Zadie Smith, NW

“People aren’t poor because they make bad choices. They make bad choices because they’re poor.”
― Zadie Smith, Swing Time

“When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth