Zadie Smith Quotes

To me, these kind of everyday miseries act as a fatal disqualifier. My sunniest beliefs are basically contingent on the fact that my child is not dying of cancer right now.

Zadie Smith

• Children
• Dying
• Everyday
• Cancer

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• To me, these kind of everyday miseries act as a fatal disqualifier. My sunniest beliefs are basically contingent on the fact that my child is not dying of cancer right now.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Children
  • Dying
  • Everyday