Famous Zadie Smith Quotes

  • Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand, but tell it. – Zadie Smith

    Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand, but tell it.– Zadie Smith

  • Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time. – Zadie Smith

    Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.– Zadie Smith

  • I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another. – Zadie Smith

    I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another.– Zadie Smith

  • Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived. – Zadie Smith

    Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.– Zadie Smith

  • All tastes are expressions of belief. – Zadie Smith

    All tastes are expressions of belief.– Zadie Smith

  • The future’s another country, man… And I still ain’t got a passport. – Zadie Smith

    The future’s another country, man… And I still ain’t got a passport. – Zadie Smith

  • The past is always tense, the future perfect. – Zadie Smith

    The past is always tense, the future perfect.– Zadie Smith

  • More silence; children’s silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs. – Zadie Smith

    More silence; children’s silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.– Zadie Smith

  • Jerome said, It’s like, a family doesn’t work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know? – Zadie Smith

    Jerome said, It’s like, a family doesn’t work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?– Zadie Smith

  • Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories. – Zadie Smith

    Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.– Zadie Smith