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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “She had a wisdom that nobody could recognize; the deaths of her children hadn’t torn the innocence from her heart, but had calloused her against her own rage. She knew that fighting was pointless. As a woman, she would always lose. It was not her place to stage a battle, but to back away to preserve what life she had left to live.”

301. “She had a wisdom that nobody could recognize; the deaths of her children hadn’t torn the innocence from her heart, but had calloused her against her own rage. She knew that fighting was pointless. As a woman, she would always lose. It was not her place to stage a battle, but to back away to preserve what life she had left to live.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I never fell asleep when I didn’t want to. I was more of a somniac. A somnophile. I’d always loved sleeping. It was one thing my mother and I had enjoyed doing together when I was a child. She was not the type to sit and watch me draw or read me books or play games or go for walks in the park or bake brownies. We got along best when we were asleep.”

302. “I never fell asleep when I didn’t want to. I was more of a somniac. A somnophile. I’d always loved sleeping. It was one thing my mother and I had enjoyed doing together when I was a child. She was not the type to sit and watch me draw or read me books or play games or go for walks in the park or bake brownies. We got along best when we were asleep.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Avevo paura. La paura sembrava desiderio: all’improvviso volevo tornare in tutti i luoghi in cui ero stata, in ogni strada che avevo percorso, ogni stanza in cui mi ero seduta. Volevo rivedere tutto. Cercai di ricordare la mia vita sfogliando le Polaroid che avevo nella mente.”

303. “Avevo paura. La paura sembrava desiderio: all’improvviso volevo tornare in tutti i luoghi in cui ero stata, in ogni strada che avevo percorso, ogni stanza in cui mi ero seduta. Volevo rivedere tutto. Cercai di ricordare la mia vita sfogliando le Polaroid che avevo nella mente.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?”

304. “Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Mr. Polk, I knew, held a secret I’d been wanting to understand. He knew death, I suppose. Maybe it was that simple.”

305. “Mr. Polk, I knew, held a secret I’d been wanting to understand. He knew death, I suppose. Maybe it was that simple.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “He needed fodder for analysis. But the project was beyond issues of “identity” and “society” and “institutions.” Mine was a quest for a new spirit. I wasn’t going to explain that to Ping Xi. He would think he was understood me. But he couldn’t understand me. He wasn’t supposed to.”

306. “He needed fodder for analysis. But the project was beyond issues of “identity” and “society” and “institutions.” Mine was a quest for a new spirit. I wasn’t going to explain that to Ping Xi. He would think he was understood me. But he couldn’t understand me. He wasn’t supposed to.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I never got a good look at Dr. Tuttle’s eyes. I suspect that they were crazy eyes, black and shiny, like a crow’s. The pen she used was long and purple and had a purple feather at the end of it.”

307. “I never got a good look at Dr. Tuttle’s eyes. I suspect that they were crazy eyes, black and shiny, like a crow’s. The pen she used was long and purple and had a purple feather at the end of it.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I felt I’d walked into a scene from a movie in which someone was going mad, the air heavy with suspense.”

308. “I felt I’d walked into a scene from a movie in which someone was going mad, the air heavy with suspense.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I rebelled in silent ways, with my thoughts.”

309. “I rebelled in silent ways, with my thoughts.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “On May 28, I came to, knowing this was the last time I would perform my habitual ablutions and take the Infermiterol.”

310. “On May 28, I came to, knowing this was the last time I would perform my habitual ablutions and take the Infermiterol.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I knew what I’d said just wasn’t true. But I was young enough, and had been enslaved enough by my public school education and my father and his Catholicism, and was frightened enough of being punished or questioned or singled out, that I obeyed every rule there was at Moorehead.”

311. “I knew what I’d said just wasn’t true. But I was young enough, and had been enslaved enough by my public school education and my father and his Catholicism, and was frightened enough of being punished or questioned or singled out, that I obeyed every rule there was at Moorehead.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Marek guessed that Villiam could use his wealth to influence God’s will. That was the way things worked, Marek thought. If you didn’t have money, you had to be good.”

312. “Marek guessed that Villiam could use his wealth to influence God’s will. That was the way things worked, Marek thought. If you didn’t have money, you had to be good.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Having to breathe was an embarrassment in itself.”

313. “Having to breathe was an embarrassment in itself.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Sleep is key. Most people need upwards of fourteen hours or so. The modern age has forced us to live unnatural lives. Busy, busy, busy. Go, go, go. You probably work too much.”

314. “Sleep is key. Most people need upwards of fourteen hours or so. The modern age has forced us to live unnatural lives. Busy, busy, busy. Go, go, go. You probably work too much.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “The pharmacist on duty that evening was a young Latina woman – perfect eyebrows, fake nails. She knew me on sight. “Give me ten minutes,” she said.”

315. “The pharmacist on duty that evening was a young Latina woman – perfect eyebrows, fake nails. She knew me on sight. “Give me ten minutes,” she said.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Something struck me as I watched Randy scratch his elbow, then lean against the door frame of the visitation room – I was no longer in love with him. Looking at him with eyes now glazed over in my new affection for Rebecca, he seemed like a nobody, a face in a crowd, gray and meaningless like an old newspaper clipping of a story I’d read so many times, it no longer impressed me. Love can be like that. It can vanish in an instant.”

316. “Something struck me as I watched Randy scratch his elbow, then lean against the door frame of the visitation room – I was no longer in love with him. Looking at him with eyes now glazed over in my new affection for Rebecca, he seemed like a nobody, a face in a crowd, gray and meaningless like an old newspaper clipping of a story I’d read so many times, it no longer impressed me. Love can be like that. It can vanish in an instant.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “A serious rest. My mouth watered. Good strong American sleep. Those pills would scrape out the sludge of Infermiterol left in my mind. Then I’d feel better. Then I’d be set. I’d live easy. I’d think easy. My brain would glide. I looked at the assortment of pills in my palm. Good-bye, bad dream. I wished I had my Polaroid camera to document the scene.”

317. “A serious rest. My mouth watered. Good strong American sleep. Those pills would scrape out the sludge of Infermiterol left in my mind. Then I’d feel better. Then I’d be set. I’d live easy. I’d think easy. My brain would glide. I looked at the assortment of pills in my palm. Good-bye, bad dream. I wished I had my Polaroid camera to document the scene.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “She’d done everything so many times in her life, she drifted between now and then, often getting lost in between.”

318. “She’d done everything so many times in her life, she drifted between now and then, often getting lost in between.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “She awoke in my heart some long-sleeping dragon.”

319. “She awoke in my heart some long-sleeping dragon.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I decided I would only pretend to believe in God since that seemed just as good as real faith, which I didn’t have.”

320. “I decided I would only pretend to believe in God since that seemed just as good as real faith, which I didn’t have.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “It always impressed me how predictable Reva was – she was like a character in a movie. Every emotional gesture was always right on cue.”

321. “It always impressed me how predictable Reva was – she was like a character in a movie. Every emotional gesture was always right on cue.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “In the moments waiting to lose consciousness, I imagined Trevor on one knee, proposing to his current lady friend. The self-satisfaction. The stupidity of wanting something “forever.” I almost felt sorry for him, for her.”

322. “In the moments waiting to lose consciousness, I imagined Trevor on one knee, proposing to his current lady friend. The self-satisfaction. The stupidity of wanting something “forever.” I almost felt sorry for him, for her.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Reva had an interesting method of mixing her drinks. After each sip of Diet Mountain Dew, she’d pour a little Jose Cuervo into the can to take up the space her sip had displaced, so that by the time she finished, she was drinking straight tequila.”

323. “Reva had an interesting method of mixing her drinks. After each sip of Diet Mountain Dew, she’d pour a little Jose Cuervo into the can to take up the space her sip had displaced, so that by the time she finished, she was drinking straight tequila.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I can’t blame Dr. Tuttle for her terrible advice. I elected to be her patient, after all.”

324. “I can’t blame Dr. Tuttle for her terrible advice. I elected to be her patient, after all.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Being pretty only kept me trapped in a world that valued looks above all else.”

325. “Being pretty only kept me trapped in a world that valued looks above all else.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Now let me ask you a technical question. Do you have any heroes?” “I guess Whoopi Goldberg is my hero.” “A family friend?” “She took care of me after my mother died,” I said. Who hadn’t heard of Whoopi Goldberg?”

326. “Now let me ask you a technical question. Do you have any heroes?” “I guess Whoopi Goldberg is my hero.” “A family friend?” “She took care of me after my mother died,” I said. Who hadn’t heard of Whoopi Goldberg?”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I have always hated the police.”

327. “I have always hated the police.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “But people lied all the time. It was a part of what kept us whole as individuals. A little lying never hurt anybody. It kept the bounds of what one person was distinct from what another person was.”

328. “But people lied all the time. It was a part of what kept us whole as individuals. A little lying never hurt anybody. It kept the bounds of what one person was distinct from what another person was.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Neither creation or sacrifice could lead a person to heaven.”

329. “Neither creation or sacrifice could lead a person to heaven.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “My own startled face startled me... I got close to the mirror and looked very carefully. There I was, a tiny dark reflection of myself deep down in my right pupil. Someone said once that pupils were just empty space, black holes, twin caves of infinite nothingness. ‘When something disappears, that’s usually where it disappears – into the black holes in our eyes.’ I couldn’t remember who had said it. I watched my reflection disappear in the steam.”

330. “My own startled face startled me... I got close to the mirror and looked very carefully. There I was, a tiny dark reflection of myself deep down in my right pupil. Someone said once that pupils were just empty space, black holes, twin caves of infinite nothingness. ‘When something disappears, that’s usually where it disappears – into the black holes in our eyes.’ I couldn’t remember who had said it. I watched my reflection disappear in the steam.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “The best was when I could see the hard face of a cold-hearted killer breaking through the chubby cheeks and callow softness of youth.”

331. “The best was when I could see the hard face of a cold-hearted killer breaking through the chubby cheeks and callow softness of youth.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I spent many hours watching his biceps flick and pump as he turned each page of his comic book. When I imagine him now, I think of the way he’d swerve a toothpick around in his mouth. It was beautiful. It was poetry. I asked him once, nervous and ridiculous, whether he felt cold wearing just short sleeves in winter. He shrugged. Still waters ran deep, I thought, nearly swooning.”

332. “I spent many hours watching his biceps flick and pump as he turned each page of his comic book. When I imagine him now, I think of the way he’d swerve a toothpick around in his mouth. It was beautiful. It was poetry. I asked him once, nervous and ridiculous, whether he felt cold wearing just short sleeves in winter. He shrugged. Still waters ran deep, I thought, nearly swooning.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Watching her take what was deep and real and painful and ruin it by expressing it with such trite precision gave me reason to think Reva was an idiot, and therefore I could discount her pain, and with it, mine.”

333. “Watching her take what was deep and real and painful and ruin it by expressing it with such trite precision gave me reason to think Reva was an idiot, and therefore I could discount her pain, and with it, mine.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “During the school year, all I did was contend with stupidity and ignorance. That’s what teachers are paid to do. How I got stuck teaching Dickens to fourteen-year-olds is a mystery to me.”

334. “During the school year, all I did was contend with stupidity and ignorance. That’s what teachers are paid to do. How I got stuck teaching Dickens to fourteen-year-olds is a mystery to me.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “The law was all set up to keep people convinced their fears were well-guided. They came up with ways to prove themselves right about people who seemed a little different.”

335. “The law was all set up to keep people convinced their fears were well-guided. They came up with ways to prove themselves right about people who seemed a little different.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “But such was death – it had nothing to say.”

336. “But such was death – it had nothing to say.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Having never known love before, he couldn’t recognize the feeling. Something was terribly wrong, he felt.”

337. “Having never known love before, he couldn’t recognize the feeling. Something was terribly wrong, he felt.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Passai molto tempo a fissare il soffitto quell’anno, tentando di cancellare pensieri di morte con pensieri di nulla.”

338. “Passai molto tempo a fissare il soffitto quell’anno, tentando di cancellare pensieri di morte con pensieri di nulla.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I thought she seemed smug; she sighed as she ran each stapled bag under the scanner, as though it exhausted her to deal with me and all my mental health issues.”

339. “I thought she seemed smug; she sighed as she ran each stapled bag under the scanner, as though it exhausted her to deal with me and all my mental health issues.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “My mom is in this cheap little wooden box now,” she whined. “It’s only this big.” She took her hands off the wheel to show me the dimensions, voguing.”

340. “My mom is in this cheap little wooden box now,” she whined. “It’s only this big.” She took her hands off the wheel to show me the dimensions, voguing.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “People will tell you the truth, if you really want to hear it.”

341. “People will tell you the truth, if you really want to hear it.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Then, on a Sunday morning, my father was suddenly lucid and told me matter-of-factly that he would die in the afternoon.”

342. “Then, on a Sunday morning, my father was suddenly lucid and told me matter-of-factly that he would die in the afternoon.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I loved it, or at least I thought I ought to love it – I’ve never been very clear on that distinction.”

343. “I loved it, or at least I thought I ought to love it – I’ve never been very clear on that distinction.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “It’s the captain. He looks fresh shaved. My own face is covered in little wires that amount to nothing but the look of dirt. It is a kind of dirt, things that grow out from me. It means I have dirt deep inside of me. A head full of dirt, maybe. When I’ve had a few, a nice soft dirt. Otherwise I am livewired, hungry-eyed like a scorned wolf, but give the appearance of a nervous boy, tittering along in search of something, namely, another drink.”

344. “It’s the captain. He looks fresh shaved. My own face is covered in little wires that amount to nothing but the look of dirt. It is a kind of dirt, things that grow out from me. It means I have dirt deep inside of me. A head full of dirt, maybe. When I’ve had a few, a nice soft dirt. Otherwise I am livewired, hungry-eyed like a scorned wolf, but give the appearance of a nervous boy, tittering along in search of something, namely, another drink.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I’d been up on bad cocaine and drinking for days. I’d roped a few man back to my apartment and showed them all my belongings, stretched out flesh-colored tights and proposed we take turns hanging each other. Nobody last more than a few hours.”

345. “I’d been up on bad cocaine and drinking for days. I’d roped a few man back to my apartment and showed them all my belongings, stretched out flesh-colored tights and proposed we take turns hanging each other. Nobody last more than a few hours.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Oprah says that we women rush into decisions because we don’t have faith that something better will ever come along. And that’s how we get stuck in dissatisfying careers and marriages. Amen!”

346. “Oprah says that we women rush into decisions because we don’t have faith that something better will ever come along. And that’s how we get stuck in dissatisfying careers and marriages. Amen!”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “We’re all alone, Reva,” I told her. It was true: I was, she was. This was the maximum comfort I could offer.”

347. “We’re all alone, Reva,” I told her. It was true: I was, she was. This was the maximum comfort I could offer.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I sensed Reva’s misery in the room with me. It was the particular sadness of a young woman who has lost her mother–complex and angry and soft, yet oddly hopeful. I recognized it. But I didn’t feel it inside of me. The sadness was just floating around in the air.”

348. “I sensed Reva’s misery in the room with me. It was the particular sadness of a young woman who has lost her mother–complex and angry and soft, yet oddly hopeful. I recognized it. But I didn’t feel it inside of me. The sadness was just floating around in the air.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Walter had told me stories of the war, and they were worse than vampire books. They didn’t seem at all real either. It was dumb and cruel that anyone had to die at any moment they weren’t ready for, if they still felt there was more life to live.”

349. “Walter had told me stories of the war, and they were worse than vampire books. They didn’t seem at all real either. It was dumb and cruel that anyone had to die at any moment they weren’t ready for, if they still felt there was more life to live.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I’d stay home through the blizzard and get some hard sleeping done. I’d return to my old rhythm, my daily rituals. I needed the stability of my familiar routine.”

350. “I’d stay home through the blizzard and get some hard sleeping done. I’d return to my old rhythm, my daily rituals. I needed the stability of my familiar routine.”

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