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“The goddamn bullshit of all this, I swear. The world makes you think God forbid you actually enjoy sex”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Not Otherwise Specified

“I’ve applied to Brentwood every semester since I was a freshman. My mom fought me on it at first, but I think at this point she’s resigned herself to the fact that I’m never going to get in, so she just signs the forms without arguing. I mean, it’s Brentwood, so to get accepted you not only have to dance like you’re in Black Swan and belt out a B over high C like it’s a middle G and cry on cue through a memorized six thousand lines of Shakespeare, but you have to do it all at once, while having a 4.0 and forking over a hundred thousand dollars and giving the admissions director a blow job, apparently, but once you’re in, you’re in, it’s Brentwood then Juilliard then fame and fortune, and even if not, it’s New York City, baby, and the most important part of this equation is Brooklyn Bridge at midnight and tiny dogs in Chelsea and the Staten Island Ferry and that ex-girlfriend (don’t think about that, should I think about that?) and the answer to the goddamn equation is the absolute value of not Nebraska.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Not Otherwise Specified

“There is something really fundamentally wrong with me, something that’s keeping me from connecting with people the way that I’m supposed to. It’s like all this stuff I try to fix about myself, all of these problems that I say I have, are just me trying to represent, trying to justify this weird broken part of me that nobody else is seeing.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Not Otherwise Specified

“I go both ways", I say, "You know that whole thing about there being a misconception about bisexuals being sluts. Like everyone thinks that just because we're into both we're into everybody?" ... "Well I'm actually kind of a slut. I'm awesome for the community, obviously”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Not Otherwise Specified

“No no no, sweetie, that wasn't dancing, that was being a whore. Good God, what do they teach in church nowadays? Aren't you supposed to be able to pick whores out of a lineup?"
"That's only on Sundays," she says. "It's Thursday, my secret Christian Whore-Spotting Powers aren't activated.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Not Otherwise Specified

“Look at me.” He’s quiet for a second. Then he says, “You’re beautiful.” Bianca nods. God, I missed friends.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Not Otherwise Specified

“We go through tons and tons of therapy trying to figure out ‘why.’ Everyone wants it to be this same exact reason for everybody, like, oh, shit, if only I hadn’t eaten that house paint in 2002 I’d be eating like a normal person!”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Not Otherwise Specified

“It’s a defense mechanism, whatever, but so’s half the shit people do,”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Not Otherwise Specified

“Here I am thinking like I know her. I get like this with girls. I just do. (Rachel said it was one of her favorite things about me. Rachel said, You care so much, Etta, you care so much about getting your ass laid, that’s what this really is, huh, go get ’em tigress.) (This isn’t that. This is let me see your scars, let me show you mine too.)”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Not Otherwise Specified

“I like fishnets. Reminds me of ham or something I can eat.” This is an old standby, these self-deprecating chubby-girl jokes, and I’m nervous as hell and I guess I’m falling back on old habits.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Not Otherwise Specified

“The goddamn bullshit of all this, I swear. The world makes you think God forbid, you actually enjoy sex, but at least you've got all your friends to tell you all the right stuff about how a woman's sexual energy is no one's business but her own and should be respected.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Not Otherwise Specified

“...It is just not hard to love where I am when where I am is here.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Not Otherwise Specified