Camille > Camille's Quotes

“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“One day you'll call me Death.
For now, Wrath will do.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Wicked

“I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Looking at my reflection really did soothe me, though I hated my face with a
passion. Such is the life of the self-obsessed.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“I didn’t really want to die. I didn’t always want to live, but I wasn’t going to kill myself.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“I desperately hoped I could avoid ever having to resemble a grown woman. I didn’t see that any good could come of that.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“When I was disturbed, I took comfort in attending to my appearance. I was obsessed with the way I looked, in fact”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“I often felt there was something wired weirdly in my brain, a problem so complicated only a lobotomy could solve it - I'd need a whole new mind or a whole new life”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“I had a bad habit of drumming my fists on my stomach and pinching the negligible amount of fat on my thighs. I sincerely believed that if there were less of me, I would have fewer problems”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“Looking at my reflection really did soothe me, though I hated my face with a passion. Such is the life of the self-obsessed.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen