113 Quotes About Ottessa-moshfegh

Now let me ask you a technical question. Do you have any heroes?""I guess Whoopi Goldberg is my hero.""A family friend?""She took care of me after my mother died," I said. Who hadn't heard of Whoopi Goldberg?

His heart growled like a trapped animal, brooding and useless.

The 'side effects and warnings' on the Internet were discouraging, and anxieties over them amplified the volume of my thoughts, which was the exact opposite of what I hoped the pills would do.

I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.

Sometimes I feel dead," I told her, "and I hate everybody.

We probably shouldn't be friends," I told her, stretching out on the sofa. "I've been thinking about it, and I see no reason to continue.

An interesting book about possums. Animals have so much wisdom," Dr. Tuttle paused. "I hope you're not a vegetarian," she said, lowering her glasses."I'm not.""That's a relief.

We all have our own ways to cope with stress," she said, and rambled on about the benefits of habitual behaviors. "Self-soothing," is how she described it. "Like meditation." I yawned, hating her.

She couldn't or simply wouldn't understand why I wanted to sleep all the time, and she was always rubbing my nose in her moral high ground and telling me to 'face the music' about whatever bad habit I'd been stuck on at the time. The summer I started sleeping, Reva admonished me for 'squandering my bikini body.' 'Smoking kills.' 'You should get out more.' 'Are you getting enough protein in your diet?' Et cetera.