Eva Swaters

“They were all on Klonopin, was my guess. They lived mostly in Brooklyn, another reason I was glad to live on the Upper East Side. Nobody up there listened to the Moldy Peaches. Nobody up there gave a shit about “irony” or Dogme 95 or Klaus Kinski.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Het was een sterke speech, waarin ze een citaat van James Baldwin moeiteloos wist te verbinden met een van haar eigen songteksten op een cd die binnenkort uit zou komen - een staaltje zelfmythologisering van de ware professional.”
― Torrey Peters

“But the people who did get that love, they grew up to be different from us. More secure. Maybe they’re not as shiny or successful as you and I feel we have to be. But it’s not because they’re not interesting. They just don’t feel they have to do the tap dance, you know? They don’t have to prove themselves all the time to be loved. Because they always were.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar