321 Quotes by Ottessa Moshfegh

I got sloppy and lazy at work, emptier, less there. This pleased me, but having to do things became very problematic. When people spoke, I had to repeat what they'd said in my mind before understanding it.

At work, I took hour-long naps in the supply closet under the stairs during my lunch breaks.

Education is directly proportional to anxiety, as you've probably learned, having gone to Columbia.

For a moment I felt joyful, and then I felt completely exhausted.

Sometimes Waldemar loves me too much. He thinks it is better I stay with him on Earth, rather than be happy in the other place without him.

I felt both relieved and irritated when Reva showed up, the way you'd feel if someone interrupted you in the middle of suicide. Not that what I was doing was suicide. In fact, it was the opposite of suicide. My hibernation was self-preservational. I thought it was going to save my life.

If, when I woke up in June, life still wasn't worth the trouble, I would end it. I would jump. This was the deal I made.

Isn't it only fair that I should get to choose how I'll die? I wouldn't die like my father did, passive and quiet while the cancer ate him alive. At least my mother did things her own way. I'd never thought to admire her before for that. At least she had guts. At least she took matters into her own hands.

I felt happy. I hardly felt like myself.