The head has its confines. The headโs got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.
Ali SmithMy father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.
Ali SmithBooks mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.
Ali SmithThen 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 Iโd never been inside a smile before. Whoโd have thought being inside a smile would be so ancient and so modern both at once
Ali Smith