Lapvona Quotes

“Strange, he thought next, that fire hurts to the touch. Fire gives light. Shouldn’t the darkness hurt instead? Hell ought to be pure darkness. Nothingness.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“But Jude’s piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be, Marek thought.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“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?”
― Ottessa Moshfegh

“He spent all his time trying to remember, as if memories could sustain him.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“She became completely consumed by her longing for something to hate.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“Beauty is the Devil's shade”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“So quickly had he forgotten his shame and unhappiness. Sugar was the cure.”
― Otessa Mosfegh

“cruelty ran in her blood.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“Everyone is ashamed. So they pretend they're perfect. But everybody sins. Only God is perfect.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“Marek hadn't felt anything vengeful in Jacob's objects, but he did sometimes imagine he felt a presence in the room when he visited. Of course, it was actually Lispeth and her memories of Jacob. She projected him back into the room so she could watch him sit and write or talk at the window, or turn over in bed. She was his ghost, in fact.”
― Otessa Mosfegh, Lapvona

“When God gives you more than you can tolerate, you resort to instinct. And instinct is a force beyond anyone's control”
― Ottesa Moshfegh