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“It's the map of my childhood, my sadness, my Eden, my hell and home.”

Sadness Childhood Sad Contradictory Ottessa Moshfegh Loss Of Innocence Eileen

Book:Eileen

Source: Eileen

“Growing up, I learned I'd be praised and rewarded for my suffering, for my strong efforts to be good, but every year God smote.”

Disappointment Karma Unfairness Ottessa Moshfegh Striving Eileen

Book:Eileen

Source: Eileen

“I felt I'd walked into a scene from a movie in which someone was going mad, the air heavy with suspense.”

Madness Suspense Ottessa Moshfegh Atmospheric Eileen

Book:Eileen

Source: Eileen

“Its the map of my childhood, my sadness, my Eden, my hell and home. when I look at it now, my heart swells with gratitude, then shrinks with disgust.”

Pain Hell Childhood Eileen

Author:Otessa Moshfegh

“She awoke in my heart some long-sleeping dragon.”

Love Heart Metaphor Awakening Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen

Book:Eileen

Source: Eileen

“It had been a long time since I'd gone anyplace I wanted to be.”

Sad Unhappy Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen

Book:Eileen

Source: Eileen

“All I had to offer were my skills as a doormat, a blank wall, someone desperate enough to do anything—just short of murder, let's say—simply to get someone to like me, let alone love me.”

Desperate Unloved Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen

Book:Eileen

Source: Eileen

“I can't say what I was looking for exactly, though I was ever hopeful that he might come out and profess his love, save me, run away with me, solve all my problems.”

Fantasy Salvation Savior Dreamer Unrequited Love Ottessa Moshfegh Daydream Eileen Imaginings

Book:Eileen

Source: Eileen

“I doubt she deserved the amount of hatred I directed at her, but I loathed just about everybody back then.”

Hatred Angry Hateful Loathing Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen Disaffected

Book:Eileen

Source: Eileen

“You talked in your sleep,” I said. His brow furrowed. “I did?” “Yeah.” I smiled wryly. “What did I say?” “You whispered ‘come on Eileen.’” A grin spread across his face. “What do you think you wanted me to do?” I asked, tilting my head. “The same thing I always want you to do. I want you to look at me the way you look at mustard.”

Look Mustard Eileen

Book:Say You'll Remember Me

Source: Say You'll Remember Me

“I really despised him, everyone.”

Hatred Ottessa Moshfegh Misanthrope Misanthropic Eileen Disaffected

Book:Eileen

Source: Eileen

“I'd never learned how to relate to people, much less how to speak up for myself. I preferred to sit and rage quietly.”

Unspoken Ottessa Moshfegh Outsider Eileen Disaffected Suffer In Silence Put Upon

Book:Eileen

Source: Eileen

“Idealism without consequences is the pathetic dream of every spoiled brat”

Consequence Idealism Spoiled Brat Eileen

Author:Otessa Moshfegh

“I deplored silence. I deplored stillness. I hated almost everything. I was very unhappy and angry all the time. I tried to control myself, and that only made me more awkward, unhappier, and angrier. I was like Joan of Arc, or Hamlet, but born into the wrong life—the life of a nobody, a waif, invisible. There's no better way to say it: I was not myself back then. I was someone else. I was Eileen.”

Identity Angry Miserable Overlooked Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen Disaffected Allusions

Book:Eileen

Source: Eileen

“Perhaps I was lucky after all. It's very hard to measure out, in hindsight, who had it worse than whom.”

Lucky Hindsight Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen Worse Off

Book:Eileen

Source: Eileen