292 Quotes by Ali Smith

So that is what history is, people and places that disappear, or are beheaded, or get damaged or nearly do, and things and places and people that get tortured and burned and so on. But this does not mean that history is not the unseen things as well.

There’s always, there’ll always be, more story. That’s what story is... It’s the never-ending leaf-fall.

I’m tired of lying governments. I’m tired of people not caring whether they’re being lied to any more. I’m tired of being made to feel this fearful. I.

She was working at her computer in her office, doing admin, which is short for administration, which is short for migraine-stimulant.

Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson’s twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times.

Once it would have been a year’s worth of news. But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff.

There are things that can’t be said, because it’s hard to have to know them.

Things can change over time, what looks fixed and pinned and closed in a life can change and open, and what’s unthinkable and impossible at one time will easily be possible in another.