#cleopatraandfrankenstein

[notyoursugarbaby]

When the darkest part of you, meets the darkest part of me, there is light.

Cleopatra and Frankenstein, Coco Mellors

[notyoursugarbaby]

I am lonely, of course. I’m so lonely I could make a map of my loneliness… Sometimes I’m so lonely I’m not even on that map.

Eleanor, on loneliness from Cleopatra and Frankenstein. Written by Coco Mellors.

[1001pagesofsummerreading]

"Sweetheart, love is humiliating. Hasn't anyone ever told you that?"

-- Cleopatra and Frankenstein, p 339

[1001pagesofsummerreading]

"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, p329

[1001pagesofsummerreading]

Days I have held, days I have lost, days that outgrow, like daughters, my harboring arms.

[1001pagesofsummerreading]

"He could not imagine Lila being middle-aged. She had been younger than Cleo now when he knew her, with a rash, impractical nature ill-suited to anyone not very young."

-- Cleopatra and Frankenstein, p 232

[1001pagesofsummerreading]

"It was her intelligence and sexual charge he'd been drawn to; he'd never once considered whether she was a good person. Now, watching her pull scarves from her bag like a magician flourishing handkerchiefs from a hat, he realized he'd been wrong. Fun was fine when you were young, but as you got older it was kindness that counted, kindness that showed up."

-- Cleopatra and Frankenstein, p67

[words-and-ghosts]

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