Josefine ✨

“The folly of not allowing people to be comfortable at home--and the folly of people's not staying comfortably at home when they can!”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“The people who owned the stores lived above them, in a row of second story apartments, and the curtains in the regular line of second story windows were pale and without life; whatever planned to be colorful lost its heart quickly in the village. The blight on the village never came from the Blackwoods; the villagers belonged here and the village was the only proper place for them. I always thought about rot when I came toward the row of stores; I thought about burning black painful rot that ate away from inside, hurting dreadfully. I wished it on the village.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Now let me ask you a technical question. Do you have any heroes?"

"I guess Whoopi Goldberg is my hero."

"A family friend?"

"She took care of me after my mother died," I said. Who hadn't heard of Whoopi Goldberg?”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Education is directly proportional to anxiety, as you've probably learned, having gone to Columbia.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation