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Ottessa Moshfegh

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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  • Darya Kushnirhas quoted5 years ago
    The Death of Marat was one of my favorite paintings. A man stabbed to death in the bathtub.
  • Arina Koriandrhas quoted5 years ago
    Die young and leave a beautiful corpse. Who said that?
  • Arina Koriandrhas quoted5 years ago
    I had no big plan to become a curator, no great scheme to work my way up a ladder. I was just trying to pass the time.
  • Arina Koriandrhas quoted5 years ago
    Walking up First Avenue, everything made me cringe. I was like a baby being born—the air hurt, the light hurt, the details of the world seemed garish and hostile.
  • Paola Garduñohas quoted6 days ago
    someone who loves you enough to point out all your flaws
  • Paola Garduñohas quoted6 days ago
    “You’re needy,” I said. “Sounds frustrating.”

    “And then there’s Ken. I just can’t stand it. I’d rather kill myself than be all alone,” she said.

    “At least you have options.”
  • Paola Garduñohas quoted6 days ago
    I wish there was someone to hold me, you know? Is that pathetic?”

    hace un tiempo yo estaba desesperada por que alguien me esuchara y supiera lo tan hundida que estaba. Y muchas veces tengo el mismo deseo de ser sostenida

  • Paola Garduñohas quoted6 days ago
    “I just can’t talk to her like I used to. I feel so sad. I feel so abandoned. I feel very, very alone.”

    :( que feo debe de ser el ir perdiendo a alguien por cáncer

  • Paola Garduñohas quoted6 days ago
    “I’m taking some time off. This is my year of rest and relaxation.”
  • Paola Garduñohas quoted6 days ago
    But she was right about me. I was “on drugs.” I took upwards of a dozen pills a day. But it was all very regulated, I thought.
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