Hana Mason

“But life isn’t only where things are exciting; it’s where things feel hard and stagnant, too.”
― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life

“Is it possible, he said, to be in love not with someone but with their eyes. I mean, with how eyes that aren't yours let you see where you are, who you are.”
― Ali Smith, Autumn

“I discovered what people are capable of, in other words, anything: sublime or deadly desires, lack of dignity, attitudes and beliefs I had found absurd in others until I myself turned to them. Without knowing it, he brought me closer to the world.”
― Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

“When we try to turn ourselves into a beautiful object, it is because we mistakenly consider ourselves to be an object, when a human being is really the other two: a gesture, and a reproduction of the human type.”
― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life