“ Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought came into my head that I’d never been inside a smile before. Who’d have thought being inside a smile… Ali Smith
“ And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brav… Ali Smith
“ Democracy or reading, democracy of space: our public library tradition, wherever we live in the wide world, was incredibly hard-won for us by the generations before us and ought to be protected, not j… Ali Smith
“ 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. Ali Smith
“ It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world. Ali Smith
“ It makes Brooke feel strange in her stomach. It is like the feeling when she reads a book like the one about the man with the bomb, or thinks a sentence, just any old sentence like: the girl ran acros… Ali Smith
“ But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless. Ali Smith
“ Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant. Ali Smith
“ And it suggests this truth about the place where aesthetic form meets the human mind. For even if we were to find ourselves homeless, in a strange land, with nothing of ourselves left-say we lost ever… Ali Smith
“ It's so warm it's almost friendly. A friendly work of art. I've never thought such a thing in my life. And look at it. It's never sentimental. It's generous, but it's sardonic too. And whenever it's s… Ali Smith
“ Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swal… Ali Smith
“ It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know. Ali Smith
“ I wished that my own bones were unbound, I wished they were mingling, picked clean by fish, with the bones of another body, a body my bones and heart and soul had loved with unfathomable certainty for… Ali Smith
