Zoe Heller
Zoe Heller
Zoë Kate Hinde Helleris an English journalist and novelist. She has published three novels, Everything You Know, Notes on a Scandal, and The Believers. Notes on a Scandal was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and was made into a a feature film in 2006...
nice reflection doe
It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.
taken
I don't think it's to be taken too seriously,
lucky team
I feel particularly lucky because I've got as professional and sympathetic a team as I could have,
attention bad drawing increasing literary sales useful
But it's a useful way of increasing sales and drawing attention to literary fiction, which is no bad thing.
cuddling want way
It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it...
crush children events
I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.
secret share bounds
We are bound by the secrets we share.
existence possession thinness
When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.
fall fighting lost-ones
Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or lost. That fight is lost one of two ways. Some simply lose their balance and fall, others are pushed.
class people parent
There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.
adultery committed ifs
If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?
honesty people departure
For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.
rose trying gypsy
When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.
romance ends delusion
...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.