Haley

“She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that life itself transformed itself into a different room, and trapped you in it without them.”
― Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

“The only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people that are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Christine Pride, We Are Not Like Them

“People should care for other people because they are familiar—because they’re also humans—not because they’re family.”
― Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

“Every loss contains all previous attempts to hang on to something you didn’t want to lose but had to let go of anyway, from a marble bag filled with the most beautiful marbles and rare shooters, to my brother.”
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening