Tre Othman

“needed to remember who I was, who I had always been. A woman who was unafraid.”
― Jennifer Saint, Atalanta

“What's your name?"
"Cleo," said Cleo.
He nodded. "Approriate."
"How so?"
"Cleopatra, the original undoer of men."
"But I am just Cleo. What's your name?"
"Frank," said Frank.
"Short for?"
"Short for nothing. What of earth would Frank be short for?"
"I don't know," Cleo smiled. "Frankfurter, frankincense, Frankenstein...."
"Frankenstein sounds about right. Creator of monsters."
"You make monsters?"
"Sort of," said Frank. "I make ads.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“this slow dissipation, the gradual abandonment of all expectations, a defeat that had killed everything without a battle.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“And we went on to create and share a special, secret world of our own—a strange town surrounded by a high wall.”
― Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls