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Quotes from White Teeth — Zadie Smith

born 1975 England

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13 quotes

The more blessed she felt on earth, the more rarely she turned to heaven.

White Teeth (2000)

This is what divorce is: Taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.

White Teeth (2000)

Because this is the other thing about immigrants: they cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

White Teeth (2000)

..and the devil won another easy hand in God's poker game.

White Teeth (2000)

Is there anything more likely to take the shine off an affair that when the lover strikes up a convivial relationship with the lovee's mother.

White Teeth (2000)

Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.

White Teeth (2000)

A past tense, future perfect kind of night.

White Teeth (2000)

His mind was a small thing with big holes through which passions regularly seeped out.

White Teeth (2000)

But why do they always have to be laughing and making a song-and-dance about everything? I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.

White Teeth (2000)

Ryan's freckles were a join-the-dot's enthusiast's wet dream.

White Teeth (2000)

… and catholics give out forgiveness at the same time politicians give out promises and whores give out.

White Teeth (2000)

He talked and talked, the kind of talking you do to stave off the inevitable physical desire. The kind of talk that only increases it.

White Teeth (2000)

… dressed all in yellow spreading warmth and the promise of sex.

White Teeth (2000)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Zadie Smith (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.