Zadie Smith, NW

"Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what repels their daughters, forcing them to turn away. Mothers are left stranded, madly holding a lump of London clay, some grass, some white tubers, a dandelion, a fat worm passing the world through itself."

Zadie Smith, NW

"Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources."

Zadie Smith, NW

"I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me."

Zadie Smith, NW

"There was an inevitability about the road towards each other which encouraged meandering along the route."

Zadie Smith, NW