I thought time stretched out forever, I thought I had the rest of my life to make this decision but I realise I am on a clock and it runs differently for me. I am female. There was never much time and I’ve wasted so much already.
“My mother is like a hummingbird in that if she stops moving, even for a moment, she will surely die.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“You don't stop bullshitting because you are old," she says.
"You get old because life's bullshit," I say.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"You get old because life's bullshit," I say.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“What did I tell you about what other people think?” asks my mother. “‘So what?’” I say. “Exactly.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“Do you know the word humiliate comes from the Latin root humus, which means ‘earth’? That’s how love is supposed to feel.” “Like hummus?” “Like earth. It grounds you. All this nonsense about love being a drug, making you feel high, that’s not real. It should hold you like the earth.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“She did think she was special, but she wouldn’t have admitted it. She knew enough to know there was nothing less special than thinking you were.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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