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“Occasionally, over the years, when I'd felt abandoned and scared and heard a voice in my mind say, "I want my mommy," I took the note out and read it as a reminder of what she'd actually been like and how little she cared about me. It helped. Reject, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“- dismissing any thought of me the way you'd walk past boxes of mac'n'cheese or mashmallow cereal on a shelf in the grocery store. I was kids' stuff. I was nonsense. I wasn't worth the calories.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“A small smile turns up a corner of my mouth. I feel the sharpness of my teeth and roll my tongue over them. For the first time, I like the feeling.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Hell was the only destination she ever used in her metaphors.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation