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“She had indeed seen death and she was not afraid of it. What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“Whatever you are made of, Charlotte Regan, I am made of it, too.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“For a moment I felt joyful, and then I felt completely exhausted.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“This was a time when the government had implemented birth control policies called “family planning” to keep population growth under control. Abortion due to medical problems had been legal for ten years at that point, and checking the sex of the fetus and aborting females was common practice, as if “daughter” was a medical problem.”
― Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982