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fan account ! quotes from ottessa moshfegh’s eileen ~ my year of rest and relaxation ~ death in her hands ~ lapvona ~ homesick for another world ~ mcglue. liminarivista.it/comma-22/ognun… X-VILLE Joined July 2021

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ottessa moshfegh bot @_moshfeghbot

3 months ago

The law was all set up to keep people convinced their fears were well guided. They came up with ways to prove themselves right about people who seemed a little different. All witches, they said, felt pain if you stuck them in the ribs and sank in water if you tied them down.

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10 months ago

I had no idea what any of it meant, but it had some effect on me. It was cold in there. My nipples stood on end, my hands were swollen, my back hurt. I must have stunk of alcohol. I watched the students in their uniforms line up for the Eucharist.

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10 months ago

'Oh that's good! Oh that's hilarious! You of all people! Disgusting,' Villiam said. 'And very honest. That makes you the king now.'

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10 months ago

Death was different. It was tender, a mystery. What was it, even? Why did anybody have to die? Walter, the Jews, how many innocent children . . . my thoughts lost their train. How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?

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10 months ago

So now I was stuck with TV. I surfed the channels. A commercial for cat food. A commercial for home saunas. A commercial for low-fat butter. Fabric softener. Potato chips in individually portioned packages. Chocolate yogurt. Go to Greece, the birthplace of civilization.

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10 months ago

Her hair was long and thick, the color if brass, coarse and, I noted gratefully, in need of a hardy brushing.

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10 months ago

I'm still breathing and I'm worried. I stare at the corner, thinking Johnson will appear, morph out of the stray shadows, take shape and come and put his hand on my shoulder. The bed shakes with just my own breathing.

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10 months ago

He stood up, scratching his head, his armpit a rat's nest of hair flecked with white gunk from his antiperspirant. "I'm going home," he said, "I'm tired."

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10 months ago

Even after all his ire, his spite, his disgust, his struggle, the movement of her head toward him filled his heart with longing.

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10 months ago

"These are very predictable stories. Don't you see? I can solve it. The killer is always the person just west of center." He talked like that, and I knew exactly what he meant: the killer wasn't directly in front of my face, but within reach.

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10 months ago

My lips were chapped but I was smiling.

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10 months ago

I called out after her. "I'll be waiting!" My voice bounded loud across the snow-filled yard. Rebecca turned and put a finger to her lips to hush me. "We can go anywhere we want," I said, hushed. "Just the two of us. I have money. No one will ever find us."

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11 months ago

This type of dizzy makes sense when I walk.

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a year ago

The sons went down to the beach and lit paper documents on fire and stared out into the water and screamed out their sorrow. The daughter stayed in her room, listening to twinkling music on her computer.

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a year ago

Villiam chortled, then cackled, then bent over chuckling until he had to hold himself around the ribs to keep them from vibrating too painfully. 'Ouch! That was funny, Marek! Now Lispeth, come. Let us sniff you.' Marek was sorry he'd said anything, but he had only told the truth.

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a year ago

I left then, walking across the yard, past their black car, and up the dirt road through the pines, thrumming my fingers in the book still held against my chest. If I didn't have that tangible object to hold, I'd have felt that what had just transpired was only a dream.

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a year ago

The men who worked at the bodega were all young Egyptians. Besides my psychiatrist Dr. Tuttle, my friend Reva, and the doormen at my building, the Egyptians were the only people I saw on a regular basis.

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a year ago

"OK," I said. Nobody had ever cried to me before. "I'll help you."

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a year ago

We understand a scuffle took place in our streets on Saturday last between an unknown young northerner and Silas B. Woolcutt in which the latter gentleman came out minus one lip. In consequence of this calamity we fear he will not be able to give quite as much lip in our streets

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a year ago

What does "crazy" even mean? There is one person everyone calls "crazy." She is an old lady who lives between the cans of garbage behind the market. She covers herself in cabbage leaves and fronds from carrot tops and old wax paper smeared with animal fat,