Megan

“My mother is like a hummingbird in that if she stops moving, even for a moment, she will surely die.”
― Coco Mellors, 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.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“Of course it had not been for her. And there it was, the feeling she had been trying to deny, the dark, oily jealousy rising in her that Frank would do for Eleanor what he would never do for her. Eleanor got this version of Frank, the sober, thoughtful man who took her suggestions, while Cleo had endured the drunken predecessor like a fool.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“You don't stop bullshitting because you are old," she says.
"You get old because life's bullshit," I say.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein