Sonali Menon

“I always called back to cancel, which I hated doing because I hated talking to people.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“This was how I knew the sleep was having an effect: I was growing less and less attached to life. If I kept going, I thought, I'd disappear completely, then reappear in some new form. This was my hope. This was the dream.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Charm is not a hairstyle. You either have it or you don’t. The more you try to be fashionable, the tackier you’ll look.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Reva was like the pills I took. They turned everything, even hatred, even love, into fluff I could bat away. And that was exactly what I wanted—my emotions passing like headlights that shine softly through a window, sweep past me, illuminate something vaguely familiar, then fade and leave me in the dark again.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation