292 Quotes by Ali Smith

The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

...their nineteen-sixties with the flowers in the guns and their summers of love, as if all we’d had was winter, all we’d had was rations. Just very good at keeping quiet, is what we were. We had to be. It was the way. Them with their jet-age.

There was once, and there was only once; once was all there was.

Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We’ve got to come up with a better answer.

I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.

She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had died a violent death.

The people in this country are in furious rages at each other after the last vote, she said, and the government we’ve got has done nothing to assuage it and instead is using people’s rage for its own political expediency. Which is a grand old fascist trick if ever I saw one, and a very dangerous game to play. And what’s happening in the United States is directly related, and probably financially related.

He was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen in my life. But he really looked like a girl. She was the most beautiful boy I’d ever seen in my life.

But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff.