Homesick For Another World Quotes

“I hated them for not worshiping me. Had they no idea of my sacrifice? There I was, perfectly wonderful, and nobody would see that.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“I guess I have a lot of emotion stored up. But it's nothing bad. It's love. It's just love rotting up inside of me . . . That's it . . . I have too much love, I think, and nobody to give it to.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“I still felt that the good things, the things I wanted, belonged to somebody else.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“My brain hurts and I cry all the time. I don't want to be here on Earth for one moment longer.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“I tell him I wish I could stay with him, but not here, not on Earth. Earth is the wrong place for me, always was and will be until the day I die.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“I loved it, or at least I thought I ought to love it—I've never been very clear on that distinction.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“Nothing made me happy.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“His heart growled like a trapped animal, brooding and useless.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“He never knew what to say around her. Everything he wanted to say was 'You are beautiful' and 'I'm in love with you.' There was, in his mind, nothing else for him to say.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“He was very intelligent and preoccupied with death and suffering.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“I'd never planned on working all my life. I'd had this fantasy that I'd get married and suddenly find a calling beyond the humiliating need to make a living. Art or charity work, babies—something like that.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“He looked deep into my eyes. "I love you," he'd say. "More thank anyone else on Earth. More than my own mother. More than God."

"Okay," I'd tell him. "Thanks.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh

“It's a lonely life.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“Sometimes Waldemar loves me too much. He thinks it is better I stay with him on Earth, rather than be happy in the other place without him.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“He seemed unable to enjoy the stark beauty of it all, the wild terror of the mountains, the towering glaciers, the little ribbons of time that clung to the rock in the form of frozen cataracts. The aurora danced above us both nights, green and blue and white undulating together, a cold ocean up there in the sky, and even that he barely glanced at. On the second night, he used his magic to summon a thick green hedge of prickly holly and a trio of willow saplings that enfolded our tent in drapery like bed curtains to keep out the chill wind.
"Will you look at that!" I couldn't help but exclaiming as I sat by the fire, gazing up at the riot of light. I will admit, I wished for him to share the sight with me and was disappointed when he only sighed.
"Give me hills round as apples and forests of such green you could bathe in it," he said. "None of these hyperborean baubles."
"Baubles!" I exclaimed, and would have snapped at him, but his face as he gazed into the fire was open and forlorn, and I realized that he wasn't trying to be irksome---he missed his home. He had been longing for it all along, and this place, so alien and unfriendly, had sharpened the longing into a blade.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries