Lapvona

by Ottessa Moshfegh

I feel stupid when I pray. —“Anyone,” Demi Lovato

‘Beauty is the Devil’s shade,’ Jude said.

That’s their eternal penance; the ones who go to hell rot. The ones who go to heaven disappear.

love was a distinctly human defect which God had created to counterbalance the power of human greed.

What good was a life of struggle with no guarantee of heaven?

A mother’s sorrow was tiresome, but a whore’s heartache? It would be a good show.