Francesca Costa

“Ma ogni mia esperienza – anche quella che mi viene da questo lungo interrogarmi nel quaderno – m’insegna che tutta la vita passa nell’angoscioso tentativo di trarre conclusioni e non riuscirci. Almeno per me è così: tutto mi sembra, allo stesso tempo, buono e cattivo, giusto e ingiusto: persino caduco ed eterno.”
― Alba de Céspedes, Forbidden Notebook

“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.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“It's that hope for happiness that consumes a woman day after day, destroys her.”
― Alba de Céspedes, Forbidden Notebook

“The notion of my future suddenly snapped into focus: it didn't exist yet.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation