Sadhbh

“Archie says -Science- the same way he says -Modern-, as if someone has lent him the words and made him swear not to break them.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“This was one of the little ways in which he said sorry. They were meant to add up each day.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“They were married before they were friends, which is another way of saying:
Their marriage was the occasion of their friendship.
They were married before they noticed many small differences in background, aspiration, education, ambition. (...)
Noting such differences, Leah was in some sense disappointed in herself that they did not cause real conflict between them. It was hard to get used to the fact that the pleasure her body found in his, and vice versa, should so easily overrule the many objections she had, or should have had, or thought she should have had.”
― Zadie Smith, NW

“I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it.... I should be loving sculpture! But I have not gone deeply into sculpture. Instead, having been utterly insensitive to sculpture, I fill the time that might have been usefully devoted to sculpture with things like drinking and staring into space.”
― Zadie Smith