Sheila Heti - How Should a Person Be? (2010)

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I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.

Sheila Heti

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

Sheila Heti

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

Sheila Heti

We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

Sheila Heti

It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.

Sheila Heti

There are certain people who do not feel like they were raised by wolves, and they are the ones who make the world tick. They are the ones who keep everything functioning so the rest of us can worry about what sort of person we should be.

Sheila Heti

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

Sheila Heti

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

Sheila Heti

Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.

Sheila Heti