Josefine ✨

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

“I thought we had somehow not found our way back correctly through the night, that we had somehow lost ourselves and come back through the wrong gap in time, or the wrong door, or the wrong fairy tale.”
― 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

“I wondered about going down to the creek, but I had no reason to suppose that the creek would even be there, since I never visited it on Tuesday mornings.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle