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...
dream distance reality
Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.
romance ends delusion
...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.
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.
adultery committed ifs
If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?
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.