Lisa

“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

“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

“How could a woman ever improve when fenced in on all sides by contempt?”
― Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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