Åsa

“To have a child is like being a city with a mountain in the middle. Everyone sees the mountain. Everyone in the city is proud of the mountain. The city is built around it. A mountain, like a child, displays something real about the value of that town.
In a life in which there is no child, no one knows anything about your life's meaning. They might suspect it doesn't have one - no centre it is built around. Your life's value is invisible, like the contexts of that young driver's friends.
How wonderful to tread an invisible path, where what matters most can hardly be seen.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood

“The lonely fill up their lives with books. I don’t live in nature. I don’t live in culture. I don’t live in my relationships. I live in books. What good can all the books of the world be, penned by the loneliest men who ever lived?”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood

“I love the people who exist already, and there are so many books to read, and so much silence to inhabit.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood

“Mightn't it be, Cathy, that, until you've seen the dark, you don't really know the light?”
― Robert Dinsdale, The Toymakers