Guoda

“Your idea about what your life is about, or should be like, occurs even before your life has had a chance to unfold. So much time that hasn't had the opportunity to present itself you spend in efforts trying to make space ahead fill in exactly the way you hope it might. So what is the point in having that time? Or being in it at all?”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood

“...what good does it do to me to be suspicious or to doubt? That is causing myself pain in advance of any real pain.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood

“Because a living person has their own reality, he says. The person who's gone has no reality anymore, except in thoughts. And once they're gone from thoughts, they actually are completely gone. If I don't think about him, literally, I'm ending his existence.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected.”
― Sabbahatin Ali