The Accidental Quotes.

1. "There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them."
- Ali Smith, The Accidental

2. "Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness."
- Ali Smith, The Accidental

3. "She had entered him like he was water. Like he was a dictionary and she was a word he hadn't known was in him. Or she had entered him more simply, like he was a door and she opened him, leaving him standing ajar as she walked straight in."
- Ali Smith, The Accidental

4. "He had seemed a man with whom the right kind of dialogue would be possible."
- Ali Smith, The Accidental

5. "He was clearly in love with Amber too, and this time it wasn't the usual water off the back of the duck. Instead, the duck, wounded by a hunter and bewildered because half its head had been shot way, and was still tottering about on its webby feet by the side of the pond. From the one side it looked like a duck usually looks. From the other, it was a different story."
- Ali Smith, The Accidental

6. "It was just that the literal meaning itself wasn´t immediately comprehensible. That doesn´t mean it didn´t mean."
- Ali Smith, The Accidental