Melissa Kantor · 283 pages
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“After all, what did Prince Charming know about Cinderella besides her shoe size?”
“Because if I have a wicked stepmother and two evil stepsisters, aren't I supposed to get a prince?”
“Nothing.
That's what happens to the stepmother in Cinderella.
Nothing.”
“You were sleeping?" said Princess One.
"No," I said. "Sometimes I just like to lie in the dark for hours with my eyes closed.”
“People never think things that are true are funny.”
“Why is it I can spend a dozen Friday nights staring at the peeling walls of my "room" without anyone in the family so much as poking a head down to see if I'm alive, while the one time I actually have plans (major plans, plans that necessitate extraordinary focus and massive preparation), my stepmother suddenly suggests we sing a duet of "Getting to Know You"?”
“Apparently being Cinderella isn't so bad after all.”
“Prince Charming was requesting my presence tonight.”
“Tonight was a perfect illustration of why Cinderella and the Prince get married twenty-four hours after they meet. Because when you're living with your stepmother, there is no happily ever after.”
“Every given commodity fights for itself, cannot acknowledge the others, and attempts to impose itself everywhere as if it were the only one. The spectacle, then is the epic poem of this struggle, an epic which cannot be concluded by the fall of any Troy. The spectacle does not sign the praises of men and their weapons, but of commodities and their passions. In this blind struggle every commodity, pursuing its passion, unconsciously realizes something higher: the becoming-world of the commodity, which is also the becoming-commodity of the world. Thus, by means of a ruse of commodity logic, what's specific in the commodity wears itself out in the fight while the commodity-form moves toward its absolute realization.”
“The fox who keeps to one den is the easiest caught by the terriers, and I felt I had nested too long in one place.”
“I'm glad you decided to come."
"It doesn't mean anything." He grinned. "Everything means something.”
“Well, either you have a compartment under this floor, containing a living person, or the property is infested by giant moles”
“Honestly, I don’t quite know how we got to this point. I hated him on sight. I did this only for the money. I thought he was a fucked up mess. I still think he’s a fucked up mess.
But so am I. And he’s so beautiful, so thoughtful, so vulnerable. We can be a mess together. I want to heal him. I know I can heal him.”
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