Åsa

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“There is a kind of sadness in not wanting the things that give so many other people their life’s meaning.”
― 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

“Whether I want kids is a secret I keep from myself—it is the greatest secret I keep from myself.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood