Sheila Heti

“What’s the difference between being a good mother and being a good daughter? Practically a lot, but symbolically nothing at all.”

“I really need an infinity amount of time to work. Infinity sounds so dauntingly impossible! — but infinity can be accessed in moments like this one. It does not mean that to write this book, I need an infinity amount of time, but rather that I need to access infinity in time. Infinity is not a duration of time, it is a quality of time. I can reach it in moments like this one.”

Motherhood: A Novel (2018)