And after that, I watched our house collapse in on itself and I spent some time lying in the rubble. Then I vanished completely. I wasn't here at all. Then you phoned. - Ali Smith
She looked at the girl in the chair and she saw what youth was. It was oblivious, with things in its ears. - Ali Smith
Okay, I said. As long as I've got you here, we're going to use and appreciate this present moment. Because I wish, and I've wished a thousand times since you went, that we'd known it was the present, and that we were living in it. - Ali Smith
But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we'll find out - and where the whole point of reading it or watching it will be that we will find out - what happened. - Ali Smith
Everybody turns to look at him. It is quite frightening. - Ali Smith
She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person. - Ali Smith