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“Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes
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“She’d learned early that it was quicker to bond with another person over what you didn’t like than what you did, and that the easiest way to feel close to someone was to do something transgressive together. That’s why smokers always made friends.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“Using the chair is not a punishment. It is not a prison,” he said. “It never was. And I am as much of a man in that chair, or with that cane, as I am standing on my feet.”
― Tower of Dawn
― Tower of Dawn
“That was the thing about New York, Cleo thought as they walked toward the buses. It never knew what you wanted, so it offered you everything.”
― 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
“But the people who did get that love, they grew up to be different from us. More secure. Maybe they’re not as shiny or successful as you and I feel we have to be. But it’s not because they’re not interesting. They just don’t feel they have to do the tap dance, you know? They don’t have to prove themselves all the time to be loved. Because they always were.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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Nikki’s 2025 Year in Books
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