“Everybody’s got a hungry heart. The trick is to learn when you’re eating to fill the heart instead of the stomach. Feeding the stomach, she said, is easy. That’s just diet. It’s learning how to feed the heart that’s hard.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“People are like this too, you know,” he says eventually. “We break. We put ourselves back together. The cracks are the best part. You don’t have to hide them.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“Cleo’s like a cat,” said Frank. “She can touch you, but you can’t touch her. That’s her thing.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“We want because we’re wanting . Both senses of the word. The lacking and the longing, all rolled into one. The more you find yourself wanting, the more you want.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“I'm so lonely I could make a map of my loneliness....Sometimes I'm so lonely I'm not even on that map.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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