## Metadata - Author: [[Zadie Smith]] - Full Title: Swing Time - Category: #books ## Highlights - I saw all my years at once, but they were not piled up on each other, experience after experience, building into something of substance—the opposite. A truth was being revealed to me: that I had always tried to attach myself to the light of other people, that I had never had any light of my own. I experienced myself as a kind of shadow. ([Location 114](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01D9H1Q2Q&location=114))