Lea

“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

“All present men are stand-ins for former men. And all men are stand-ins for our fathers. And even our fathers mean less than our own self-preservation. May you not go around the world looking to fill what you fear you lack with the flesh of another human.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

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

“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