siru

“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

“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

“The bandit didn't struggle or curse. He said only 'God forgive you', the same words Marek had said to him a few days earlier.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“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