Sami

“Open up your heart,’ she said.

‘I’m afraid it’s broken.’

‘If I was knocking at your door, would you open it?’

‘I would, of course.’

‘Even if the door was broken.’

‘I would try.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Children are selfish, she thought. They rob you of life. They thrive as you toil and wither, and then they bury you, their tears never once falling out of regret for what they’ve stolen.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“Her absence hung over both of
them like a hovering bird. Marek felt the bird wasn’t close enough, that it
was just out of reach, that if it descended a bit farther he could grab hold of
its foot and it would take him away, fly him to some better place. And Jude
felt the bird was too close. If he looked up at it, it would scratch his eyes
out. The difference was that Jude had known Agata. And he knew the truth
about her absence. All Marek knew was that she had given her life for his
own, like any good mother would do.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona