Ottessa Moshfegh
Author
1981-05-20
Books by Ottessa Moshfegh
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Quotes by Ottessa Moshfegh
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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.
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I'd never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.
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Every time I saw Lacey, she'd gained five more pounds. She was turning into the kind of obese girl who does her hair like a forties pinup and wears bright red lipstick, a blue polka-dot dress with a white doily collar, colorful tattoos across her huge, smushed cleavage, as if these considerations would distract us from how fat and miserable she'd become.
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I'd never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.
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Every time I saw Lacey, she'd gained five more pounds. She was turning into the kind of obese girl who does her hair like a forties pinup and wears bright red lipstick, a blue polka-dot dress with a white doily collar, colorful tattoos across her huge, smushed cleavage, as if these considerations would distract us from how fat and miserable she'd become.
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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.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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