Full stories are as rare as honesty.
Zadie Smith, White Teeth.
“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”
“Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.”
“It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.”
“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!...”
“When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.”
“More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.”
“[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”
“Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.”
“The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isnt wrong, when you know exactly how much hes fought those...”
