205 quotes found
Writer · British · 1975
British writer (born 1975)
“A little white woman, . . . [a] tiny little white woman I could fit in my pocket. . . . And I dont know why Im surprised. You dont even notice it you never notice. You think its normal. Everywhere...”
“And it's time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings.”
“We are split people. For myself, half of me wishes to sit quietly with legs crossed, letting the things that are beyond my control wash over me. But the other half wants to fight a holy war. Jihad!...”
“This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.”
“When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.”
“On BeautyNo, we could not itemize the listof sins they can't forgive us.The beautiful don't lack the wound.It is always beginning to snow.Of sins they can't forgive usspeech is beautifully useless....”
“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
“The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport. ”
“All tastes are expressions of belief.”
“But singing isnt just about belting it out, is it? Its not just who has the most wobble or the highest note, no, its about phrasing, and being delicate, and getting just the right feeling from a so...”
“He had liked to listen to the exotic (to a Belsey) chatter of business and money and practical politics; to hear that Equality was a myth, and Multiculturalism was a fatuous dream; he thrilled at t...”
“Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.”
“They were real people who entertained and argued and existed entirely independently from him, although he had set the thing in motion. They had different thoughts and beliefs. ~ on children growing...”
“At a certain point you have to leave childish things behind, and one of the childish things is a sense that 'Wow, I can draw' or in my case 'Wow, I can read'... You feel you have what's called a ta...”
“More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.”
“She was the kind of person who never gave you enough time to miss her.”
“I'd decided to establish a new rule for myself: read for half an hour an evening, no matter what.”
“She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isnt time for anything else.”
“Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish to God I could buy black hair products from black people for once. How we goin...”
“You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.”
