Ash

“I'd never learned how to relate to people, much less how to speak up for myself. I preferred to sit and rage quietly.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“I could not stop wasting time. It was crazy. I wanted to do something with my life, but instead I went to sleep, or sung in the shower, or sat and stared at the wall. I couldn't even tell you about anything that I saw. I didn't talk to anybody. The cicadas kept dying outside, and as I dreamed, my mouth grew thick and venomous with silence.”
― Yiwei Chai

“Why do you lie so much? And about the weirdest little things?", my mother always asked me. "I don’t know", I always said. But I did know. It was very simple. Because it was a better story.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“People died all the time. Why couldn't I?”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen