Quotes by Zoë Heller

About Zoë Heller:

Zoë Kate Hinde Heller is an English journalist and novelist.
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It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

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But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill fortune.

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...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.

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If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.

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But about the drip drip of long-haul, no-end-in-sight solitude, they know nothing. They don't know what it is to construct an entire weekend around a visit to the laundrette. Or to sit in a darkened flat on Halloween night, because you can't bear to ...

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Things that are truly innocent don’t need to be labelled as such.

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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 ...

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All my life I have been the sort of person in whom people confide. And all my life I have been flattered by this role - grateful for the frisson of importance that comes with receiving important information. In recent years, however, I have noticed t...

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If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?

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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...

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We are bound by the secrets we share.

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He had made a fairly unambiguous pass at her, as she was getting out of the cab. But event that had come to nothing. Sheba said that she had sensed something resentful about him, as if he begrudged her for having the power to attract him.

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Author Bio

  • NameZoë Heller
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornJuly 7, 1965
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionAuthor; Journalist