Carly

“The slightest thing delighted him. I wished I could be more like that, and tried to promise myself I’d work harder to be happier.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

“Monogamy has been used historically and currently as a capitalist and patriarchal tool for controlling women, and for keeping all people in small, docile units where they are isolated and unable to connect and organize (especially in minority-world cultures). This keeps resistance to a bare minimum.”
― Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution

“A little lying never hurt anybody. It kept the bounds of what one person was distinct from what another person was.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

“It was comforting to have an animal, so consistently near and needy, to focus on, to nurture. Just to have another heart beating in the room, a live energy, had cheered me. I hadn’t realized how lonely I’d been, and then suddenly I wasn’t alone at all. I had a dog. Never again would I be alone, I thought. What a gift to have such a companion, like a child and protector, both, something wiser than me in so many ways, and yet doting, loyal, and affectionate.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands