Imogen Osborne

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

“Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

“Full stories are as rare as honesty.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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