I'm a Fan Quotes

“Is the need for fervent fans a deeper expression of the fear of being anonymous”
― Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan: A Novel

“It is toxic. I am familiar”
― Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

“The building … should be seen as a body but I see it as a metaphor for the way the mind works too. The show has a sexy confidence which is augmented by its supremely quiet focus. It is akin to being touched slowly by someone you want to be touched by, when you want them to go fast and of their slowing it all down so you pay attention. It’s the moment where you delay gratification, withholding so you enjoy how much the other person wants you, savouring your wanting of them, of their release to the animal, experiencing a body outside of words. The refusal to fill the space with objects but to move and reshape, invites chance and the unknown through negative spaces— because is this not faith, believing in what you cannot see? Is this not what invites God? An experience at its most powerful when it is suggested or alluded to, when you have to put the pieces together yourself.”
― Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

“By the fact of your gender, you are fundamentally dismissed, and because you are asking for his vulnerability, you become the enemy, you are treated as a hostile invader, with suspicion, surveyed as a constant high-level threat and you will be suppressed or defeated.”
― Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan