Marie

“Anyway, I don't trust those people who poke around sad people's minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there. It's not interesting.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“It is impossible to predict what might happen in a world where you don't know the rules.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“My death mask didn't seem to perturb her at all. It always peeved me when my flatness was met with good cheer, good manners. Didn't she know I was a monster, a creep, a crone? How dare she mock me with courtesy when I deserved to be treated with disgust and dismay?”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden," Jacques said. And then: "I wonder why.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room