Cleopatra and Frankenstein

by Coco Mellors

What is a wedding, Cleo wondered, if not a private dream made public, a fantasy suspended between two worlds like a cat’s cradle?

now when you put it like that 😅

“Eighty percent of relationship,” she said, “is tolerating difference.” “What’s the other twenty percent?” asked Frank. The woman shrugged. “Fucking.”

lmao 😂😂

‘Love looks through spectacles that make copper look like gold, poverty like riches, and tears like pearls.”

When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light.

aww

“When was the last time you were with a straight man, I’m talking any straight man, and he said something more interesting than what you were already thinking?”

valid question

Fun was fine when you were young, but as you got older it was kindness that counted, kindness that showed up.

“Your pussy is your power.”

so true reclaim your power bestie<3

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.

mood though if people don't like me then they must hate me and I can't handle that

“Just one that matters,” said Jiro. “No expectations. No preferences. If you prefer one outcome over another in life, you will likely be disappointed. I prefer nothing and am always surprised.”

does that really work?

“Movie, melatonin, and masturbation,” she says, tapping out the words on my hand with her finger. “Best night’s sleep you’ll ever have.”

mood😂😂

“Do you know the word humiliate comes from the Latin root humus, which means ‘earth’? That’s how love is supposed to feel.” “Like hummus?” “Like earth. It grounds you. All this nonsense about love being a drug, making you feel high, that’s not real. It should hold you like the earth.”

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.”

crying