"Life is not a harvest. Just because you have an apple doesn’t mean you have an orchard. You have an apple. Put a fence around it. Once you have put a fence around everything you value, then you have t..."
- Sheila Heti
"We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time."
"When I strip away my dreams, what I imagine to be my potential, all the things I haven't said, what I imagine I feel for other people in the absence of my expressing it, all the rules I've made for my..."
"Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears."
"If now in some ways I drink too much, it’s not that I lack a reverence for the world."