Lea

“Now it was time to tell her when the rot set in.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

“In a haze, I ordered a rice cooker from the Wolfgang Puck Bistro Collection, a cubic zirconia tennis bracelet, two push-up bras with silicone inserts, and seven hand-painted porcelain figurines of sleeping babies.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“FOR MANY YEARS MY RAGE was dormant.
I'd lived to survive. I could call up the hideous event, but in a far-off way. I could have dictated only the facts. I could not have called up each moment of horror.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

“Of all the rapes I'd sustained, this was the worst degradation-the way a man who thinks nothing of you can loom larger than your life.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal