Mike

“then after a few miles you arrived at a new idea, that wealth and morality are in essence the same thing, for the more money a person had, then the more goodness—or potential for goodness—a person possessed.”
― Zadie Smith, Swing Time

“I don’t see anything ingenious about poverty like this. I don’t see anything ingenious about having ten children when you can’t afford one.”
Fern put his glasses back on and smiled at me sadly.
“Children can be a kind of wealth,” he said.”
― Zadie Smith, Swing Time

“Great care was taken at all times to protect me from reality. They'd met people like me before. They knew how little reality we can take.”
― Zadie Smith, Swing Time

“A peculiar idea. Once you’re alive in this world, you’re responsible.”
― Zadie Smith, Swing Time