Sheila Heti Quotes

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.

People's most prized possessions carry deeply symbolic and emotional significance.

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.

You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.

But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.

It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.

Having emotional connections to things that don't really exist, like looking at a green ball and really loving that green ball, and being sad whether it's around or not. Stuff like that. I've never done acting at this level before so it was a huge challenge for me. It was a hurdle to overcome just to survive.

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

I am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or so. So it was my life.

I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.

When men break up they want to remain friends. Why? Why can't they just get lost?

When I wear jewelry it needs to really mean something.

Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

Some people value sentiments over diamonds.

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

What's a star when his most important fan is missing?