Time is how you spend your love.

- Zadie Smith

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

- Zadie Smith

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

- Zadie Smith

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

- Zadie Smith

Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead.

- Zadie Smith

A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when …

- Zadie Smith

The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.

- Zadie Smith

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

- Zadie Smith

Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.

- Zadie Smith