Zadie Smith Quotes About Accidents

Quotes about: Accidents

• Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?

  Zadie Smith

  Giving Up, Lying, Believe

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White Teeth: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

• I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human — I only love to be so.

  Zadie Smith

  Pride, Female, Proud

  "Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays". Book by Zadie Smith, 2009.

• Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a simple matter of what you will do when the chips are down, my friend. When the fat lady is singing. When the walls are falling in, and the sky is dark, and the ground is rumbling. In that moment our actions will define us. And it makes no difference whether you are being watched by Allah, Jesus, Buddah, or whether you are not. On cold days a man can see his breath, on a hot day he can't. On both occasions, the man breathes.

  Zadie Smith

  Jesus, Children, Wall

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.87, Vintage

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