Zadie Smith, On Beauty Quotes
They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.
This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.
Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?
She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.
This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.