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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “The tonality of my night sleep was more variable, generally unpredictable, but every time I lay down in that supply closet I went straight into black emptiness, an infinite space of nothingness. I was neither scared nor elated in that space. I had no visions. I had no ideas. If I had a distinct thought, I would hear it, and the sound of it would echo and echo until it got absorbed by the darkness and disappeared.”

401. “The tonality of my night sleep was more variable, generally unpredictable, but every time I lay down in that supply closet I went straight into black emptiness, an infinite space of nothingness. I was neither scared nor elated in that space. I had no visions. I had no ideas. If I had a distinct thought, I would hear it, and the sound of it would echo and echo until it got absorbed by the darkness and disappeared.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “The worst crime I could commit in his eyes was to do anything for my own pleasure, anything outside of my daughterly duties. Evidence of a will of my own was seen as the ultimate betrayal.”

402. “The worst crime I could commit in his eyes was to do anything for my own pleasure, anything outside of my daughterly duties. Evidence of a will of my own was seen as the ultimate betrayal.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I slept around in spurts, going out more, then less. Nothing ever panned out in terms of “love.” Reva often spoke about “settling down.” That sounded like death to me.”

403. “I slept around in spurts, going out more, then less. Nothing ever panned out in terms of “love.” Reva often spoke about “settling down.” That sounded like death to me.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I was intensely bored of Reva already. This would be the end of our friendship, I felt.”

404. “I was intensely bored of Reva already. This would be the end of our friendship, I felt.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Through the thorns to the stars.”

405. “Through the thorns to the stars.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I reached for her hand and held it. It was bold of me to make such a move, but I thought we might bond now that we had something so huge in common – a dead man whose last name we shared.”

406. “I reached for her hand and held it. It was bold of me to make such a move, but I thought we might bond now that we had something so huge in common – a dead man whose last name we shared.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Suspicion invites danger, doesn’t it? Keep the imagination soft and happy, and only good things will come.”

407. “Suspicion invites danger, doesn’t it? Keep the imagination soft and happy, and only good things will come.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I simply can’t have roommates. I like my own space.”

408. “I simply can’t have roommates. I like my own space.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I just wanted some downers to drown out my thoughts and judgments, since the constant barrage made it hard not to hate everyone and everything.”

409. “I just wanted some downers to drown out my thoughts and judgments, since the constant barrage made it hard not to hate everyone and everything.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I searched for something in his face, anything his mask of contentment might betray, but there was nothing. He was a genius in that sense-a master. His was the best mask I’d ever seen.”

410. “I searched for something in his face, anything his mask of contentment might betray, but there was nothing. He was a genius in that sense-a master. His was the best mask I’d ever seen.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “When I stole things I felt I was invincible, as though I had punished the world and rewarded myself, setting things right for once – justice served. I.”

411. “When I stole things I felt I was invincible, as though I had punished the world and rewarded myself, setting things right for once – justice served. I.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “But I was tall and thin and blond and pretty and young. Even at my worst, I knew I still looked good.”

412. “But I was tall and thin and blond and pretty and young. Even at my worst, I knew I still looked good.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “My mother’s body stayed alive for exactly three days. Even with a tube down her throat, a machine taped to her face to keep her breathing, she was still pretty. She was still prim. “Her organs are shutting down,” the doctor explained. System failure.”

413. “My mother’s body stayed alive for exactly three days. Even with a tube down her throat, a machine taped to her face to keep her breathing, she was still pretty. She was still prim. “Her organs are shutting down,” the doctor explained. System failure.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Nothing calls more attention to one’s odor than a fragrance meant to mask it.”

414. “Nothing calls more attention to one’s odor than a fragrance meant to mask it.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “It was all nonsense, but people loved it.”

415. “It was all nonsense, but people loved it.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “He was like that – regretful and arrogant and illogical at once. I don’t think he ever really loved his children. The wedding band he continued to wear years after her death suggested that he’d loved our mother to some degrees at least. But I suspect he was incapable of love, real love. He was a cruel character. Imagining his parents beating him as a child is the only path to forgiveness that I have found so far. It isn’t perfect, but it does the trick.”

416. “He was like that – regretful and arrogant and illogical at once. I don’t think he ever really loved his children. The wedding band he continued to wear years after her death suggested that he’d loved our mother to some degrees at least. But I suspect he was incapable of love, real love. He was a cruel character. Imagining his parents beating him as a child is the only path to forgiveness that I have found so far. It isn’t perfect, but it does the trick.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “There was something strange in her face, a blankness that made her hard to see. He didn’t believe that a man was something holy – the servants’ faith did not recognize holiness in human beings. They didn’t care for Jesus. Flesh was mortal. God was not. God was not alive. God was life itself. And life was invisible. This was why Clod felt he had to make art, to give proof of life.”

417. “There was something strange in her face, a blankness that made her hard to see. He didn’t believe that a man was something holy – the servants’ faith did not recognize holiness in human beings. They didn’t care for Jesus. Flesh was mortal. God was not. God was not alive. God was life itself. And life was invisible. This was why Clod felt he had to make art, to give proof of life.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Things might be theoretical, that was true. I may be imagining it all, but it still hurt. It was still sad to lose someone you loved.”

418. “Things might be theoretical, that was true. I may be imagining it all, but it still hurt. It was still sad to lose someone you loved.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “We need some solid stuff to hold on to. When I look at you, I see fine loose threads, like a silk cushion that has been rubbed for a hundred years, poor girl.”

419. “We need some solid stuff to hold on to. When I look at you, I see fine loose threads, like a silk cushion that has been rubbed for a hundred years, poor girl.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I felt like killing my father, but I didn’t want him to die.”

420. “I felt like killing my father, but I didn’t want him to die.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “But maybe I’d need something to read on my ride to my future, I thought. I could borrow a few of the finer books from the X-ville library, disappear and never return them.”

421. “But maybe I’d need something to read on my ride to my future, I thought. I could borrow a few of the finer books from the X-ville library, disappear and never return them.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “There’s a rumor going around that the artist gets the dogs as puppies, raises them, then kills them when they’re the size he wants. He locks them in an industrial freezer because that’s the most humane way to euthanize them without compromising the look of the animal. When they thaw, he can get them into whatever position he wants.”

422. “There’s a rumor going around that the artist gets the dogs as puppies, raises them, then kills them when they’re the size he wants. He locks them in an industrial freezer because that’s the most humane way to euthanize them without compromising the look of the animal. When they thaw, he can get them into whatever position he wants.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Oxytocin is a hormone released during copulation,” my father went on, staring at the blank wall behind me.”

423. “Oxytocin is a hormone released during copulation,” my father went on, staring at the blank wall behind me.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “So I was good. I did all the right things. I rebelled in silent ways, with my thoughts.”

424. “So I was good. I did all the right things. I rebelled in silent ways, with my thoughts.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “To hell with God. And to hell with your father.”

425. “To hell with God. And to hell with your father.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “This is the story of how I disappeared.”

426. “This is the story of how I disappeared.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I’d never been to the kind of party in the Polaroid photos.”

427. “I’d never been to the kind of party in the Polaroid photos.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “There was majesty and grace in the pace of the swaying branches of the willows. There was kindness. Pain is not the only touchstone for growth, I said to myself.”

428. “There was majesty and grace in the pace of the swaying branches of the willows. There was kindness. Pain is not the only touchstone for growth, I said to myself.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I don’t know if it was the directness and certitude of his statement that rattled me-he was always clinical, always rational, always dry-or that his death was no longer just an idea-it was happening, it was real-or if, during the week I’d spent by his side, we had bonded without my knowledge or consent and, all of a sudden, I loved him.”

429. “I don’t know if it was the directness and certitude of his statement that rattled me-he was always clinical, always rational, always dry-or that his death was no longer just an idea-it was happening, it was real-or if, during the week I’d spent by his side, we had bonded without my knowledge or consent and, all of a sudden, I loved him.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it. I’d be punished if I showed signs of suffering, I knew. So I was good. I did all the right things. I rebelled in silent ways, with my thoughts. My parents barely seemed to notice I existed.”

430. “I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it. I’d be punished if I showed signs of suffering, I knew. So I was good. I did all the right things. I rebelled in silent ways, with my thoughts. My parents barely seemed to notice I existed.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “There was a tiny, living creature in her womb. The product of an accident. A side effect of delusion and sloppiness.”

431. “There was a tiny, living creature in her womb. The product of an accident. A side effect of delusion and sloppiness.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “My blind eye was the one real comfort I felt I could give her.”

432. “My blind eye was the one real comfort I felt I could give her.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “When she arrived that Tuesday, bustling in from the frigid morning snowdrifts, she whirled off her coat as though in slow motion – this is how I remember it – and shook it like a bullfighter as she strode up the corridor toward me, hair rippling behind her, eyes like daggers shooting down straight through my heart to my guts. She was pure magic.”

433. “When she arrived that Tuesday, bustling in from the frigid morning snowdrifts, she whirled off her coat as though in slow motion – this is how I remember it – and shook it like a bullfighter as she strode up the corridor toward me, hair rippling behind her, eyes like daggers shooting down straight through my heart to my guts. She was pure magic.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I loved Reva, but I didn’t like her anymore.”

434. “I loved Reva, but I didn’t like her anymore.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “The moon was just a sliver, a comma, a single eyelash in the dark, starless sky.”

435. “The moon was just a sliver, a comma, a single eyelash in the dark, starless sky.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I didn’t really want to die. I didn’t always want to live, but I wasn’t going to kill myself.”

436. “I didn’t really want to die. I didn’t always want to live, but I wasn’t going to kill myself.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “And she had said that a small percentage of people taking the kind of medications she prescribed for me reported having hallucinations during their waking hours.”

437. “And she had said that a small percentage of people taking the kind of medications she prescribed for me reported having hallucinations during their waking hours.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Out of curiosity, what are you on?” she wanted to know. “I’ve just been really tired.”

438. “Out of curiosity, what are you on?” she wanted to know. “I’ve just been really tired.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Did she honestly think she had the power to atone for someone else’s sins, that she could exact justice with her wit, her superior thinking? People born of privilege are sometimes thus confused.”

439. “Did she honestly think she had the power to atone for someone else’s sins, that she could exact justice with her wit, her superior thinking? People born of privilege are sometimes thus confused.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Be good and you’ll leave nothing behind. Be bad and you’ll live forever in your rotting body in the ground.”

440. “Be good and you’ll leave nothing behind. Be bad and you’ll live forever in your rotting body in the ground.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Love can reappear, too, but never again unscathed. The second round is inevitably accompanied by doubt, intention, self-disgust.”

441. “Love can reappear, too, but never again unscathed. The second round is inevitably accompanied by doubt, intention, self-disgust.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Tissues stained with mascara like crushed inkblot tests piled up on her.”

442. “Tissues stained with mascara like crushed inkblot tests piled up on her.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “The terrain of my face was heavy with soft, rumbling acne scars blurring whatever delight or madness lay beneath that cold and deadly New England exterior.”

443. “The terrain of my face was heavy with soft, rumbling acne scars blurring whatever delight or madness lay beneath that cold and deadly New England exterior.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Real insomniacs suffer hallucinations and lost time and usually have poor memory. It can make life very confusing.”

444. “Real insomniacs suffer hallucinations and lost time and usually have poor memory. It can make life very confusing.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Boys will be boys,” is all I could think to say. Rebecca just laughed.”

445. “Boys will be boys,” is all I could think to say. Rebecca just laughed.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Lying on the grass outside a tennis arena, he held my face toward the sun, stared sideways at my eyeballs, and began to cry. He told me I was the sign he’d been waiting for and, like looking into a crystal ball, he’d just read a private message from God in the silvery vortex of my left pupil.”

446. “Lying on the grass outside a tennis arena, he held my face toward the sun, stared sideways at my eyeballs, and began to cry. He told me I was the sign he’d been waiting for and, like looking into a crystal ball, he’d just read a private message from God in the silvery vortex of my left pupil.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “Could Marek be just another babe to care for? Oh, that would be nice, wouldn’t it? To be pitied just once? Didn’t God owe him that, after all the horror he had endured?”

447. “Could Marek be just another babe to care for? Oh, that would be nice, wouldn’t it? To be pitied just once? Didn’t God owe him that, after all the horror he had endured?”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “I felt hopeful. I felt I was on my way to a great transformation.”

448. “I felt hopeful. I felt I was on my way to a great transformation.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “This is like waiting for a train to hell,” she whipered at some point, not to me directly, but up at the chapel ceiling. “I’m exhausted.” Highway to hell. Slow road to hell. Express bus. Taxicab. Rowboat. First-class ticket. Hell was the only destination she ever used in her metaphors.”

449. “This is like waiting for a train to hell,” she whipered at some point, not to me directly, but up at the chapel ceiling. “I’m exhausted.” Highway to hell. Slow road to hell. Express bus. Taxicab. Rowboat. First-class ticket. Hell was the only destination she ever used in her metaphors.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Quote: “You will be so happy and free, you’ll sing.”

450. “You will be so happy and free, you’ll sing.”

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