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 HetiI've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.
Sheila HetiI do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.
Sheila HetiYou have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.
Sheila HetiI hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said, 'But I'm not a good talker! Couldn't you ask my brother instead?' So it should not be so hard to come at this life with a bit of honesty. I don't need to be great like the leader of the Christian people. I can be a bumbling, murderous coward like the King of the Jews.
Sheila Heti