There is a cultural reverence for fame and celebrity that has insidiously convinced us all that we’re not enough the way we are, and when the person in the bedroom next to yours is someone who’s
“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
“They were just like the relations from whom I had fled as a girl. I couldn't bear them and yet they held me tight, I had them all inside me.”
― The Lost Daughter
― The Lost Daughter
“Stefano seemed to seek in her the most palpable symbol of the future of wealth and power that he intended; and she seemed to use the seal that he was placing on her to make herself, her brother, her parents, her other relatives safe from all that she had confusedly confronted and challenges since she was a child.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“Physical tiredness is a magnifying glass.”
― The Lost Daughter
― The Lost Daughter
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