292 Quotes by Ali Smith

It's quite like the songwriter actually couldn't be bothered to think of words...It will be precisely why the song sold so many copies and was such a big deal at the time. People like things not to be too meaningful.

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.

A book should be an axe to break the frozen sea inside you.

The lifelong friends, he said. We sometimes wait a lifetime for them.

The world order was changing and what was truly new, here and there… was that the people in power were self-servers who’d no idea about and felt no responsibility towards history.

And they all lived happily ever after, until they died.

I wished that my own bones were unbound, I wished they were mingling, picked clean by fish, with the bones of another body, a body my bones and heart and soul had loved with unfathomable certainty for decades, and both of us down deep now, lost to everything but the fact of bare bones on a dark seabed.

... across the aeons and the global distances what all the peoples of the world really have in common is so many similar ways of doing humiliating and painful things to each other.

You can’t just ask strangers to drive you up and down the country. This is the twenty first century. Strangers are more dangerous than ever; we’ve never been more dangerous.