I waved, smiled meekly. I didn’t mind being alone—really, I didn’t—but I hated the way it made others see me.
“She had not yet managed the art of being alone in public unselfconsciously, of feeling that she could watch rather than be watched.”
― 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
“People who feel the need to say ‘I’m fine’ are never fine, sweetheart,” she says.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“You don't stop bullshitting because you are old," she says.
"You get old because life's bullshit," I say.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"You get old because life's bullshit," I say.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“Why did she feel the need to make everyone, even this waiter, like her? What a thing it must be to be indifferent to indifference.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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