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“I don't understand this obsession with happiness," she said. "Happiness is like the Hollywood sign. It's big, it's unattainable, and even if you do make it up there, what's there to do but come back down?”
― 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
“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
“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
“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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