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Ali Smith Quote: “Crying came out of her like weather.”

201. “Crying came out of her like weather.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I suppose the fact that we’re all a lot more accustomed to blatancy these days means that blatancy itself has to get even more blatant, her mother says.”

202. “I suppose the fact that we’re all a lot more accustomed to blatancy these days means that blatancy itself has to get even more blatant, her mother says.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Later that night, when she was home and falling asleep on the couch in front of the TV, Elisabeth would remember seeing his eyes open, and how it was like that moment when you just happen to see the streetlights come on and it feels like you’re being given a gift, or a chance, or that you yourself’ve been singled out and chosen by the moment.”

203. “Later that night, when she was home and falling asleep on the couch in front of the TV, Elisabeth would remember seeing his eyes open, and how it was like that moment when you just happen to see the streetlights come on and it feels like you’re being given a gift, or a chance, or that you yourself’ve been singled out and chosen by the moment.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Funny, she says leaning against an unexpected warm place in the stone on the threshold of the church and liking the feel of it on her arm. Like, how we overload summer most out of all the seasons, I mean with our expectations of it.”

204. “Funny, she says leaning against an unexpected warm place in the stone on the threshold of the church and liking the feel of it on her arm. Like, how we overload summer most out of all the seasons, I mean with our expectations of it.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The nettles say nothing. The seeds at the tops of the grass stems say nothing. The little white flowers on the tops of their stalks, she doesn’t know what they are but they’re saying their fresh nothing. The buttercups say it merrily. The gorse says it unexpectedly, a bright yellow nothing, smooth and soft and delicate against the mute green nothing of its barbs.”

205. “The nettles say nothing. The seeds at the tops of the grass stems say nothing. The little white flowers on the tops of their stalks, she doesn’t know what they are but they’re saying their fresh nothing. The buttercups say it merrily. The gorse says it unexpectedly, a bright yellow nothing, smooth and soft and delicate against the mute green nothing of its barbs.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Hello, he said. What you reading? Elisabeth showed him her empty hands. Does it look like I’m reading anything? she said. Always be reading something, he said. Even when we’re not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.”

206. “Hello, he said. What you reading? Elisabeth showed him her empty hands. Does it look like I’m reading anything? she said. Always be reading something, he said. Even when we’re not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.”

Ali Smith Quote: “So you were advised to go to Snappy Snaps already but you chose not to go, the woman says.”

207. “So you were advised to go to Snappy Snaps already but you chose not to go, the woman says.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Anyone who gives wings to another’s shoulders, and then along the way gradually spreads out a hidden net, extinguishes completely the ardent charity enkindled by love precisely where it most desires to burn.”

208. “Anyone who gives wings to another’s shoulders, and then along the way gradually spreads out a hidden net, extinguishes completely the ardent charity enkindled by love precisely where it most desires to burn.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It’s why he’d got off the train here: the train had pulled towards this station and there’d been something clean about the mountains, clean like swept clean. They had something about them that accepted the fact of themselves, demanded nothing. They just were.”

209. “It’s why he’d got off the train here: the train had pulled towards this station and there’d been something clean about the mountains, clean like swept clean. They had something about them that accepted the fact of themselves, demanded nothing. They just were.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Real strength was a matter of sensing something alive in you bigger than just your own breathing.”

210. “Real strength was a matter of sensing something alive in you bigger than just your own breathing.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Now that he’s up on his feet he is hungry. Can you be hungry and dead? Course you can, all those hungry ghosts eating people’s hearts and minds.”

211. “Now that he’s up on his feet he is hungry. Can you be hungry and dead? Course you can, all those hungry ghosts eating people’s hearts and minds.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Even the machine has to encounter nature, not even it can escape the earth. There’s something reassuring in that.”

212. “Even the machine has to encounter nature, not even it can escape the earth. There’s something reassuring in that.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Never mind literal climate change, there’s been a whole seasonal shift. It’s like walking in a blizzard all the time just trying to get to what’s really happening beyond the noise and hype.”

213. “Never mind literal climate change, there’s been a whole seasonal shift. It’s like walking in a blizzard all the time just trying to get to what’s really happening beyond the noise and hype.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Even in the timeless zone of the average day of an unwell person invisible to the rest of the fast-moving world there was Deirdre at four o’clock.”

214. “Even in the timeless zone of the average day of an unwell person invisible to the rest of the fast-moving world there was Deirdre at four o’clock.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I can make no dent in anything. I have nothing left to break.”

215. “I can make no dent in anything. I have nothing left to break.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Daniel in the gallery sees one of her hands, the one on the rail of the witness box, cover itself in little shoots and buds. The buds split open. There are leaves coming out of her fingers.”

216. “Daniel in the gallery sees one of her hands, the one on the rail of the witness box, cover itself in little shoots and buds. The buds split open. There are leaves coming out of her fingers.”

Ali Smith Quote: “She was so adolescent. Everything about her asked for attention, the way she walked across a room or a shop or across the forecourt of a petrol station, leaning into the air in front of her as if about to lose her balance, mutely demanding that someone – Eve, who else? – put out the flat of her hand and let Astrid push her forehead or her shoulder into it.”

217. “She was so adolescent. Everything about her asked for attention, the way she walked across a room or a shop or across the forecourt of a petrol station, leaning into the air in front of her as if about to lose her balance, mutely demanding that someone – Eve, who else? – put out the flat of her hand and let Astrid push her forehead or her shoulder into it.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Who needs a school homework assignment to be trustworthy? Sacha said.”

218. “Who needs a school homework assignment to be trustworthy? Sacha said.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It’s funny to be sitting on such an uncommunal communal chair.”

219. “It’s funny to be sitting on such an uncommunal communal chair.”

Ali Smith Quote: “People like feeling. They like to be asked to feel. Feeling is a very powerful thing.”

220. “People like feeling. They like to be asked to feel. Feeling is a very powerful thing.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Regrets when you’re dead? A past when you’re dead? Is there never any escaping the junkyard of the self?”

221. “Regrets when you’re dead? A past when you’re dead? Is there never any escaping the junkyard of the self?”

Ali Smith Quote: “THERE was once a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house the people who were giving the dinner party.”

222. “THERE was once a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house the people who were giving the dinner party.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Then she told George that the story of the minotaur was one about facing what mazes you. She made it very clear that she was using the word maze, not amaze. Then, when you’d faced it, she said, the thing to do to get out of the labyrinth was to go back the way you’d come, follow your own thread, the thread you’d left behind you, and that this had a lot to do with knowing where we come from and what our roots are –.”

223. “Then she told George that the story of the minotaur was one about facing what mazes you. She made it very clear that she was using the word maze, not amaze. Then, when you’d faced it, she said, the thing to do to get out of the labyrinth was to go back the way you’d come, follow your own thread, the thread you’d left behind you, and that this had a lot to do with knowing where we come from and what our roots are –.”

Ali Smith Quote: “And then what happened next, well, it happened next, and history, that other word for irony, went its own foul witty way, sang its own foul witty ditty, and the girl was the one who died young in this story.”

224. “And then what happened next, well, it happened next, and history, that other word for irony, went its own foul witty way, sang its own foul witty ditty, and the girl was the one who died young in this story.”

Ali Smith Quote: “What I do when it distresses me that there’s something I can’t remember, is. Are you listening? Yes, Elisabeth said through the crying. I imagine that whatever it is I’ve forgotten is folded close to me, like a sleeping bird. What kind of bird? Elisabeth said. A wild bird, Daniel said. Any kind. You’ll know what kind when it happens. Then, what I do is, I just hold it there, without holding it too tight, and I let it sleep. And that’s that.”

225. “What I do when it distresses me that there’s something I can’t remember, is. Are you listening? Yes, Elisabeth said through the crying. I imagine that whatever it is I’ve forgotten is folded close to me, like a sleeping bird. What kind of bird? Elisabeth said. A wild bird, Daniel said. Any kind. You’ll know what kind when it happens. Then, what I do is, I just hold it there, without holding it too tight, and I let it sleep. And that’s that.”

Ali Smith Quote: “This is part empathy, part thievery. Empathy, in art, is art’s part-exchange with us, its inclusivity, at once a kindness, a going beyond the self, and a pickpocketing of our responses, which is why giving and taking are bound up with the goods, with the gods, with respect, with deep-seated understanding about the complex cultural place where kindness, thievery, bartering, and gift-giving all meet, make their exchanges, and by exchange reveal real worth.”

226. “This is part empathy, part thievery. Empathy, in art, is art’s part-exchange with us, its inclusivity, at once a kindness, a going beyond the self, and a pickpocketing of our responses, which is why giving and taking are bound up with the goods, with the gods, with respect, with deep-seated understanding about the complex cultural place where kindness, thievery, bartering, and gift-giving all meet, make their exchanges, and by exchange reveal real worth.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The painter who wanted more money because he was greedy. Or the painter who wanted more money because he knew his worth.”

227. “The painter who wanted more money because he was greedy. Or the painter who wanted more money because he knew his worth.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I penetrated to the heart of the forest, he says, sacrificed myself, and brought back – you. He.”

228. “I penetrated to the heart of the forest, he says, sacrificed myself, and brought back – you. He.”

Ali Smith Quote: “You can’t stop change, the man says. It comes of necessity. You have to go with it and make something of what it makes of you.”

229. “You can’t stop change, the man says. It comes of necessity. You have to go with it and make something of what it makes of you.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Hello Mr. Gluck, she’ll say if he does. Sorry I’m late. I was having my face measured and rejected for being the wrong specification.”

230. “Hello Mr. Gluck, she’ll say if he does. Sorry I’m late. I was having my face measured and rejected for being the wrong specification.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The trees are revealing their structures. There’s the catch of fire in the air. All the souls are out marauding. But there are roses, there are still roses. In the damp and the cold, on a bush that looks done, there’s a wide-open rose, still.”

231. “The trees are revealing their structures. There’s the catch of fire in the air. All the souls are out marauding. But there are roses, there are still roses. In the damp and the cold, on a bush that looks done, there’s a wide-open rose, still.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Thank you for having me, death. Please excuse me, must get back to it, life.”

232. “Thank you for having me, death. Please excuse me, must get back to it, life.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It’s what we do with the myths we grow up with that matters.”

233. “It’s what we do with the myths we grow up with that matters.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The longer Sacha lives the more insane she realizes the species she belongs to is.”

234. “The longer Sacha lives the more insane she realizes the species she belongs to is.”

Ali Smith Quote: “How did Dostoevsky know, she interrupted me, about that extraordinary vindictiveness, that relish for bitter laughter that comes over women in pain?”

235. “How did Dostoevsky know, she interrupted me, about that extraordinary vindictiveness, that relish for bitter laughter that comes over women in pain?”

Ali Smith Quote: “The fact is, imagine.”

236. “The fact is, imagine.”

Ali Smith Quote: “She has found by experience that she is in a world where female emancipation is a password and not a fact – she is beautiful, therefore she should not be clever.”

237. “She has found by experience that she is in a world where female emancipation is a password and not a fact – she is beautiful, therefore she should not be clever.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Since Sacha watched that TV show where celebrities dress up in costumes with huge masked heads and sing a song, and a panel and an audience try to guess who’s behind the mask, it has struck Sacha that actually everyone and everything on TV is like someone wearing a mask. After you’ve seen it, you can’t not see it.”

238. “Since Sacha watched that TV show where celebrities dress up in costumes with huge masked heads and sing a song, and a panel and an audience try to guess who’s behind the mask, it has struck Sacha that actually everyone and everything on TV is like someone wearing a mask. After you’ve seen it, you can’t not see it.”

Ali Smith Quote: “All the other houses have been pulled out of the street like bad teeth.”

239. “All the other houses have been pulled out of the street like bad teeth.”

Ali Smith Quote: “One might imagine it’d be unpleasant, being sealed inside a tree. One might imagine, ah, pining. But the scent lightens despair. It’s perhaps a little like wearing a coat of armour except much nicer, because the armour is made of a substance through which the years themselves, formative, have run.”

240. “One might imagine it’d be unpleasant, being sealed inside a tree. One might imagine, ah, pining. But the scent lightens despair. It’s perhaps a little like wearing a coat of armour except much nicer, because the armour is made of a substance through which the years themselves, formative, have run.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Brave old world.”

241. “Brave old world.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Life? was what you worked to catch, the intense happiness of an object slightly set apart from you.”

242. “Life? was what you worked to catch, the intense happiness of an object slightly set apart from you.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I’m rubble too, he thinks. Just in a different form. The whole world and all its people. Rubble.”

243. “I’m rubble too, he thinks. Just in a different form. The whole world and all its people. Rubble.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Here’s an old story so new that it’s still in the middle of happening, writing itself right now with no knowledge of where or how it’ll end.”

244. “Here’s an old story so new that it’s still in the middle of happening, writing itself right now with no knowledge of where or how it’ll end.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Why should we imagine that gender matters here? the tutor said. That’s actually my question too, Elisabeth said.”

245. “Why should we imagine that gender matters here? the tutor said. That’s actually my question too, Elisabeth said.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Invisible links like these were running between all of the people in the room that day, like they always are, like thin strands of light you couldn’t see but you knew were there regardless.”

246. “Invisible links like these were running between all of the people in the room that day, like they always are, like thin strands of light you couldn’t see but you knew were there regardless.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Perhaps somewhere in all of this if you look there’s a proof of love.”

247. “Perhaps somewhere in all of this if you look there’s a proof of love.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I’m composed when it comes to compost.”

248. “I’m composed when it comes to compost.”

Ali Smith Quote: “He turns to go – and that’s when he gets kicked in the head by the half of the pantomime horse it’s slipped his mind to shoot. He falls to the ground, dead himself on top of the pantomime fallen. It’s a surrealist vision of hell. What’s surrealist, Mr. Gluck? This is.”

249. “He turns to go – and that’s when he gets kicked in the head by the half of the pantomime horse it’s slipped his mind to shoot. He falls to the ground, dead himself on top of the pantomime fallen. It’s a surrealist vision of hell. What’s surrealist, Mr. Gluck? This is.”

Ali Smith Quote: “As he said it Mark, belted in in the back seat, had watched the holy water glint inside the plastic bubble next to the Virgin Mary and had wondered if the holy water was selective too, and if that’s what God was these days, and whether everybody now simply had a private god who sanctioned his or her own choices.”

250. “As he said it Mark, belted in in the back seat, had watched the holy water glint inside the plastic bubble next to the Virgin Mary and had wondered if the holy water was selective too, and if that’s what God was these days, and whether everybody now simply had a private god who sanctioned his or her own choices.”

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