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“If she was more curt with her own family than a homeless man this only suggested that generosity was not an infinite quantity and had to be employed strategically where it was most needed.”
― Zadie Smith, NW

“We worried for her. We tend to assume the worst, here in Willesden. We watched her watching the shuttlecock. Pock, smash. Pock, smash. As if one player could imagine only a violent conclusion and the other only a hopeful return.”
― Zadie Smith

“Like most children, theirs was a relation based on verbs, not nouns.”
― Zadie Smith, NW

“21. Jane Eyre

“When being bullied Keisha Blake found it useful to remember that if you read the relevant literature or watched the pertinent movies you soon found that being bullied was practically a sign of a superior personality, and the greater the intensity of the bullying the more likely it was to be avenged at the other end of life, when qualities of the kind Keisha Black possessedâ€� cleverness, will-to-powerâ€� became ‘their own reward,â€� and that this remained true even if the people in the literature and movies looked nothing like you, came from a different socio-economic and historical universe, andâ€� had they ever met youâ€� would very likely have enslaved you, or at best, bullied you to precisely the same extent as Lorna Mackenzie who had a problem with the way you acted like you were better than everyone elseâ€�.”
― Zadie Smith, NW