Monday, October 26, 2015

the last book I ever read (How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti, excerpt one)

from How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life by Sheila Heti:

Several years ago, when I was engaged to be married but afraid to go through with it—afraid that I would end up divorced like my parents, and not wanting to make a big mistake—I had gone to Misha with my concerns. We were drinking at a party and left to take a walk through the night, our feet brushing gently through the lightly fallen snow.

As we walked, I told Misha my fears. Then, after listening for a long while, he finally said, “The only thing I ever understood is that everyone should make the big mistakes.”

So I took what he said to heart and got married. Three years later I was divorced.



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