Alphabetical Diaries Quotes

“She was the sort of person who saw lonely, solitary sadness, when all around her there was love just pouring forth, just gushing forth from every direction. She was the sort of person who saw only one apple in a tree that was just littered with apples.”
― Sheila Heti, Alphabetical Diaries

“When you are jealous of other people, you forget there is a place in the world for you, that you occupy a real and legitimate place.”
― Sheila Heti, Alphabetical Diaries

“The whole time, the whole of my twenties, I had the sense that I was doing the wrong thing, but I couldn’t have told you what the right thing was, except that possibly it was the opposite of whatever I was doing.”
― Sheila Heti, Alphabetical Diaries

“Art changes the opinion of the masses, as much as science does.”
― Sheila Heti, Alphabetical Diaries

“I was all sore- my ears and neck, where he had bit me, pushed me; then today he ran me a pink bubble bath, brought me tea, goat's milk cheese, raspberries, made a roast, and went to AA while I lay there sleeping.”
― Sheila Heti, Alphabetical Diaries

“neutered but still very pretty, and when a man our age came up, it turned out they knew each other because their children were friends, and she spoke of this connection with him in the way of a woman behind a wall, alluring but not meaning to be, but more alluring because she was behind a wall.”
― Sheila Heti, Alphabetical Diaries