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Ottessa Moshfegh
“She was empty. ‘I am an object in the room,’ she had told herself. ‘That is all that I am.’ This belief spared her the agony of her own intelligence while she was a slave to the nuns.”
Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

Ottessa Moshfegh
“Since he was little, a scraped knee or a whipped back, anything to make his body hurt, felt like the hand of God upon him.”
Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

Ottessa Moshfegh
“When she asked the birds what to do, they answered that they didn't know anything about love, that love was a distinctly human defect which God had created to counterbalance the power of human greed.”
Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

Ottessa Moshfegh
“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

Ottessa Moshfegh
“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. That”
Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

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