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.
Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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I thought we could forgive each other
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Books with a "tinge" of pink.
Do you ever just stare at the book you're reading because of how beautiful the cover is? I know I did with these books. Long story short, I enjoyed Bunny so much that I'm currently re-reading and annotating it right now.
— Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors, My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, Bunny by Mona Awad, All's Well by Mona Awad
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alternating between reading and writing, drowning in what I know best. literature is my comfort, my escape, a rock I'm not scared to lose grip of. rekindling my love.
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when coco mellors wrote “everyone i know is either more successful or more interesting than me” and taylor swift said “i have this thing where i get older but just never wiser” and meg mason wrote “the idea that you might be ordinary is unbearable” and rilke “this heavy humanness” and
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"Those have to be the saddest words a person can utter."
"What?"
"That's just who I am."
"Why?"
"Because it shows a total unwillingness to change. That is not just who you are, Frank. It's who you've become, who you choose to be. You just refuse to acknowledge the choice."
- Cleopatra and Frankenstein, Coco Mellors .
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“I look at Frank. That was the thing about him. He noticed that. He noticed people. It was his gift. Or really, it was the gift he gave you. To be seen.”
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A little summary of my 2024 reading, including my current read 'Cleopatra and Frankenstein' by Coco Mellors 💔 and featuring my reading journal 📚✍️:
😨 'Dark Entries' by Robert Aickman 25 Jan 24 - 01 Feb 24
🧙♂️ 'Earthsea: The First Four Books' by Ursula K. Le Guin, 29 Dec 23 - 09 March 24
😈 'Hell Bent' by Leigh Bardugo, 10 Feb 24 - 09 March 24
🕵♂️ 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold' by John le Carré, 26 Feb 24 - 11 March 24
🏫 'Dead Poets Society' by N. H. Kleinbaum, 11 March 24 - 15 March 24
🎾 'Carrie Soto is Back' by Taylor Jenkins Reid, 15 March 24 - 20 March 24
🏴 'O Caledonia' by Elspeth Barker, 23 March 24 - 28 March 24
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Coco Mellors, from “Cleopatra and Frankenstein”
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so i read through cleopatra and frankenstein. its just. it feels like what someone who never saw new york would write new york as.
everyone in the book was so so beautiful and so so alcoholic. you mean to tell me that the beer bellies never caught up with anyone? the puffing up of your face? when your eyes sink in far in your skull?
also just. cleo is described as the prettiest woman in the world for like the umpteenth time when she's just. white. thats it. everyone in the book is rich and insufferable and oh so beautiful and do coke because they are also *complex* and *struggling* like man do americans really live like this?
unfortunately i did like the writing. and i was curious how the conflict would wrap up, so i did speed through the entire book. but now i wish i hadnt and had instead taken a nap
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Insta: TheBookSaviour
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I am lonely, of course. I’m so lonely I could make a map of my loneliness. In my mind it looks like South America, colossal, then petering out to a jagged little tip. Sometimes I’m so lonely I’m not even on that map.
Coco Mellors, Cleopatra & Frankenstein
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– Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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