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.
  • sillionhas quoted21 days ago
    Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion
  • sillionhas quoted24 days ago
    I didn’t want to believe that I could have degraded myself for someone who didn’t deserve it.
  • sillionhas quoted24 days ago
    I learned to float on cheap affections gleaned from other people’s insecurities
  • sillionhas quoted24 days ago
    I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.
  • Paola Garduñohas quotedlast month
    Sleep felt productive. Something was getting sorted out. I knew in my heart—this was, perhaps, the only thing my heart knew back then—that when I’d slept enough, I’d be okay. I’d be renewed, reborn. I would be a whole new person, every one of my cells regenerated enough times that the old cells were just distant, foggy memories. My past life would be but a dream, and I could start over without regrets, bolstered by the bliss and serenity that I would have accumulated in my year of rest and relaxation.
  • Paola Garduñohas quotedlast month
    There was no work to do, nothing I had to counteract or compensate for because there was nothing at all, period. And yet I was aware of the nothingness. I was awake in the sleep, somehow. I felt good. Almost happy.
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