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Lapvona QUOTES

Lapvona QUOTES

1 " Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not? "

― Ottessa Moshfegh , Lapvona

2 " Marek guessed that Villiam could use his wealth to influence God's will. That was the way things worked, Marek thought. If you didn't have money, you had to be good. "

― Ottessa Moshfegh , Lapvona

3 " I am interested in disgust. "

― Ottessa Moshfegh , Lapvona

4 " Since he was little, a scraped knee or a whipped back, anything to make his body hurt, felt like the hand of God upon him. "

― Ottessa Moshfegh , Lapvona

5 " Villiam was asleep in his four-post bed. He dreamt that the bed was made of human flesh, a living thing of fat and soft baby skin. "

― Ottessa Moshfegh , Lapvona

6 " What about heaven, Ina? Don’t you want to go?’ ‘It doesn’t matter,’ she said. ‘I won’t know anyone. "

― Ottessa Moshfegh , Lapvona

7 " Her absence hung over both of
them like a hovering bird. Marek felt the bird wasn’t close enough, that it
was just out of reach, that if it descended a bit farther he could grab hold of
its foot and it would take him away, fly him to some better place. And Jude
felt the bird was too close. If he looked up at it, it would scratch his eyes
out. The difference was that Jude had known Agata. And he knew the truth
about her absence. All Marek knew was that she had given her life for his
own, like any good mother would do. "

― Ottessa Moshfegh , Lapvona

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

― Ottessa Moshfegh , Lapvona

9 " He loved not the Christ but himself and the thrill of keeping people in line. He liked wearing his habit, and he liked the preposterous authority that his position granted him. Since his assignment in Lapvona, he had not given any real sermons. He simply translated Villiam's rule into language that sounded vaguely religious. "

― Ottessa Moshfegh , Lapvona

10 " Grigor looked around. Everything he could see -- the great room, the finery, the food, the lord's spectacular Christmas costume, none of it inspired him. It was not God's fortune, but the bounty of a thief: Villiam hadn't worked for his blessings. The villagers had. "

― Ottessa Moshfegh , Lapvona

11 " Jude didn’t understand forgiveness. He was incapable of forgiveness because he was so addled by his own grief and grudges. This bad blood was what kept Jude’s heart pumping. "

― Ottessa Moshfegh , Lapvona

12 " I finally heard the truth,’ Grigor told him. He couldn’t explain when
he’d heard it, or from whom, but he’d heard it in his heart, without words, a
deep knowing, and nothing could hurt him or frighten him now. It was so
simple that the reasoning of it tended to slip through his mind as soon as he
touched it, like a rabbit in the woods. Once you breathe, it’s gone. "

― Ottessa Moshfegh , Lapvona