“ I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really… Ottessa Moshfegh
“ I had hard feelings around the holidays, the one time of year I couldn’t help but fall prey to the canned self-pity Christmas prescribes. Ottessa Moshfegh
“ 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. Ottessa Moshfegh
“ I rarely interacted much with anyone back then who wasn't retarded. When I did, it struck me how pompous and impatient they were, always measuring their words, twisting things around. Everybody was so… Ottessa Moshfegh
“ I’d never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons. Ottessa Moshfegh
“ 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 w… Ottessa Moshfegh
