Zadie Smith libro Denti bianchi
White Teeth
Zadie Smith, nata Sadie Smith , è una scrittrice e saggista britannica.
Fino ad ora ha scritto cinque romanzi ambientati perlopiù a Londra. Negli ultimi anni è stata celebrata come una delle giovani autrici inglesi di maggior talento. Wikipedia

Zadie Smith libro Denti bianchi
White Teeth
Zadie Smith libro Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
Zadie Smith libro Denti bianchi
Origine: White Teeth
“… the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”
Zadie Smith libro Denti bianchi
Variante: A past tense, future perfect kind of night.
Origine: White Teeth (2000)
Zadie Smith libro Denti bianchi
Origine: White Teeth
“You are never stronger… than when you land on the other side of despair.”
Zadie Smith libro Denti bianchi
Origine: White Teeth
“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
Zadie Smith On Beauty
Unspecified edition, p. 424.
Origine: On Beauty (2005)
“You don't have favorites among your children but you do have allies.”
Zadie Smith On Beauty
Unspecified edition, p. 167.
On Beauty (2005)
Variante: You don't have favorites among your children but you do have allies.
“Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.”
Zadie Smith On Beauty
Origine: On Beauty
Zadie Smith libro Denti bianchi
Origine: White Teeth (2000)
Contesto: You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, 'Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me.' Now how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? And particularly if they replace us with a god, or a weeping madonna, or the face of Christ in a ciabatta roll—then we call them crazy. Deluded. Regressive. We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
Zadie Smith libro The Autograph Man
Origine: The Autograph Man
“… They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.”
Zadie Smith libro Denti bianchi
Variante: Because this is the other thing about immigrants: they cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
Origine: White Teeth (2000)
Zadie Smith libro Denti bianchi
Origine: White Teeth
Zadie Smith libro Denti bianchi
Origine: White Teeth
Zadie Smith libro Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
Origine: Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
“Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.”
Zadie Smith libro Denti bianchi
Origine: White Teeth
“This is what divorce is: Taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.”
Zadie Smith libro Denti bianchi
Origine: White Teeth (2000)
“The future's another country, man… And I still ain't got a passport.”
Zadie Smith On Beauty
Origine: On Beauty
