Åsa

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

“There is a kind of sadness in not wanting the things that give so many other people their life's meaning. There can be sadness at not living out a more universal story—the supposed life cycle—how out of one life cycle another cycle is supposed to come. But when out of your life, no new cycle comes, what does that feel like? It feels like nothing. Yet there is a bit of a let-down feeling when the great things that happen in the lives of others—you don't actually want those things for yourself.”
― 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

“She doesn't want a baby - but her body doesn't believe her. On some level, no one believes her. On some level, she doesn't even believe herself.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood