Camille

“I didn’t really want to die. I didn’t always want to live, but I wasn’t going to kill myself.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“I had a bad habit of drumming my fists on my stomach and pinching the negligible amount of fat on my thighs. I sincerely believed that if there were less of me, I would have fewer problems”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“When I was disturbed, I took comfort in attending to my appearance. I was obsessed with the way I looked, in fact”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary