Lisa

“Time is so much harder on land than people. She was still Eliza. But what was this place?”
― Zadie Smith, The Fraud

“When she was young, she had wanted to know everyone, touch everyone, be everyone, go everywhere! Now she thought that if you truly loved – and were truly loved by! – two people in your lifetime you had every right to think yourself a Midas.”
― Zadie Smith, The Fraud

“Mrs Touchet had a theory. England was not a real place at all. England was an elaborate alibi. Nothing real happened in England. Only dinner parties and boarding schools and bankruptcies. Everything else, everything the English really did and really wanted, everything they desired and took and used and discarded – all of that they did elsewhere.”
― Zadie Smith, The Fraud

“If he knew what I knew he would feel as I do”
― Zadie Smith, The Fraud