Frases de Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith é uma escritora inglesa. Formou-se em Literatura Inglesa na Universidade de Cambridge.

✵ 25. Outubro 1975   •   Outros nomes ஸேடி ஸ்மித், زادی اسمیت, ज़ैडी स्मिथ
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Zadie Smith: Frases em inglês

“… the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”

Zadie Smith livro White Teeth

Variante: A past tense, future perfect kind of night.
Fonte: White Teeth (2000)

“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Unspecified edition, p. 424.
Fonte: On Beauty (2005)

“You don't have favorites among your children but you do have allies.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Unspecified edition, p. 167.
On Beauty (2005)
Variante: You don't have favorites among your children but you do have allies.

“Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”

Zadie Smith livro White Teeth

Fonte: White Teeth (2000)
Contexto: You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, 'Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me.' Now how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? And particularly if they replace us with a god, or a weeping madonna, or the face of Christ in a ciabatta roll—then we call them crazy. Deluded. Regressive. We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

“… They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.”

Zadie Smith livro White Teeth

Variante: Because this is the other thing about immigrants: they cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
Fonte: White Teeth (2000)

“Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.”

Zadie Smith livro Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Fonte: Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays