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

“You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“...the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“... Clara was a teenage girl like any other; the object of her passion was only an accessory to the passion itself, a passion that through its long suppression was now asserting itself with volcanic necessity.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“oh he loves her, just as the English loved India & Africa & Ireland; it is the love that is the problem, people treat their lovers badly. but maybe it is just the scenery that is wrong. maybe nothing that happens on stolen ground can expect a happy ending.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“...the end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“Nostalgia is a luxury.”
― Zadie Smith, Swing Time

“It’s a question of what love gives you the right to do.”
― Zadie Smith, Swing Time

“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“...a particularly Jersey malaise--the inextinguishable longing for elsewheres.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“The half-life of love is forever.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“Revenge is living well, without you.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

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

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