Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

by Zadie Smith

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

“Her suit is full of her.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

Life is first boredom, then fear./Whether or not we use it, it goes”

There’s been time this whole time.

Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

they know the words for everything and the meaning of nothing.

a reminder that there exist desperate souls who feel that their nonexistence, in the literal sense, would be a gift to those around them.