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Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
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pain
truthful
perfect
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George R.R. Martin |
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For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race.
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life
truth
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flying
imperfection
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wings
journey
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C. JoyBell C. |
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Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
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perfection
life
something-wicked-this-way-comes
perfect
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Ray Bradbury |
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We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.
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survive
perfect
lives
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Haruki Murakami |
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And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.
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kids
disappoint
more-like-us
spectacular
than-we-think
pretend
damaged
perfect
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Jodi Picoult |
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The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.
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real
perfect
person
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Christine Feehan |
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Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.
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moments
perfect
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Mary Balogh |
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"You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green."
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love
perfect
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Jodi Picoult |
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"My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wasn't sealed, and her soul was bare to him, the scars of her tragic past and her triumphs over pain and her aching need to find her place. He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful."
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teaser
trent-kalamack
perfect
rachel
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Kim Harrison |
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" had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed.
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perfection
ingersoll
robert-g-ingersoll
robert-green-ingersoll
robert-ingersoll
praise
greatness
perfect
respect
honor
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Thomas Edison |
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I think perfect love is any time you love unconditionally, without selfish intent, without concern for personal gain.
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unselfish
perfect
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Erin McCarthy |
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And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.
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sex
romantic
love
patricia-highsmith
the-price-of-salt
lesbian
perfect
right
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Patricia Highsmith |
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"Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since Van's arrival when he was found worthy of being initiated in her web of wisdom. An individual's life consisted of certain classified things: "real things" which were unfrequent and priceless, simply "things" which formed the routine stuff of life; and "ghost things," also called "fogs," such as fever, toothache, dreadful disappointments, and death. Three or more things occurring at the same time formed a "tower," or, if they came in immediate succession, they made a "bridge." "Real towers" and "real bridges" were the joys of life, and when the towers came in a series, one experienced supreme rapture; it almost never happened, though. In some circumstances, in a certain light, a neutral "thing" might look or even actually become "real" or else, conversely, it might coagulate into a fetid "fog." When the joy and the joyless happened to be intermixed, simultaneously or along the ramp of duration, one was confronted with "ruined towers" and "broken bridges."
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life
nabakov
real-things
towers
fog
things
perfect
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Vladimir Nabokov |
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Jack Force was more than she had ever dared wish for, and he was better than a dream or a fantasy because he was real. He was far from perfect, moody and distant at times, and burdened with sharp temper and an impulsiveness that was part of his dark nature. But she felt more love for him than she thought possible. He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for her. (Schuyler Van Alen)
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Melissa de la Cruz |
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"You've got to live right, too. It's the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right facts. You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. That's the way all the experts do it. The making of a painting or the fixing of a motorcycle isn't separate from the rest of your existence. If you're a sloppy thinker the six days of the week you aren't working on your machine, what trap avoidance, what gimmicks, can make you all of a sudden sharp on the seventh? It all goes together ... The real cycle you're working in is a cycle called yourself. The machine that appears to be "out there" and the person that appears to be "in here" are not two separate things. They grow toward Qaulity or fall away from Qaulity together."
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quality
zen
perfect
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Robert M. Pirsig |
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And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.
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liberation
paralyzing
upsetting
leaving
perfect
never-again
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John Green |
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You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.
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jesus
heart
love
neighbor
perfect
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John Green |
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Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley seemed as wild and turbulent s the sea, yet beneath her fiery passion, at the very core of her, she was as forceful and strong and as constant as the deepest ocean currents. Ilya seemed as calm as a windless sea, yet beneath the surface smoldered a volcano of such explosive magnitude, his power could easily sweep everything from his path. Together they completed each other, his melody and hers merging together into a single, perfect harmony.
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wind
perfect
harmony
sea
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Christine Feehan |
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And I learned that sometimes when someone says something so devastatingly perfect, there isn't a need for a response. The words said it all.
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words
relationships
lux-series
perfect
opal
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Jennifer L. Armentrout |
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Something I'd like to be perfect at? ... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you.
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perfect
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Markus Zusak |
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You are the call and I am the answer, You are the wish, and I the fulfilment, You are the night, and I the day. What else? It is perfect enough. It is perfectly complete. You and I, What more--? Strange, how we suffer in spite of this!
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suffering
d-h-lawrence
look-we-have-come-through
you-and-i
night-and-day
whole
perfect
strange
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D.H. Lawrence |
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As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.
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pathetic
possibility
perfect
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Francine Pascal |
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You're not who he expected you to be; that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely.
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excuse
expect
fail
hard
intervene
intervention
talk
perfect
mistake
lesson
failure
expectations
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Robin Hobb |
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"The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it turns ever more perfect. And when it's perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits the
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philosophy
perfect
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David Mitchell |
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No wife wants to hear that her husband is less than perfect.
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love
shopaholic
wife
perfect
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Sophie Kinsella |
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If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no...
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woman
silence
shut-up
perfect
quiet
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Jennifer Crusie |
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Her smile increased. She had perfect white regular teeth; Irish, Juliana decided. Only Irish blood could give that jawline such femininity.
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feminity
white
perfect
irish
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Philip K. Dick |
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This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined morphological expectations. It is still capable of perceiving message-totalities and autonomous thing-signals when no morphologically intact figures are left - indeed, precisely then. The sense for perfection withdraws from the forms of nature - probably because nature itself is in the process of losing its ontological authority. The popularization of photography also increasingly devalues the standard views of things. As the first edition of the visible, nature comes into discredit. It can no longer assert its authority as the sender of binding messages - for reasons that ultimately come from its disenchantment through being scientifically explored and technically outdone. After this shift, 'being perfect' takes on an altered meaning: it means having something to say that is more meaningful than the chatter of conventional totalities. Now the torsos and their ilk have their turn: the hour of those forms that do not remind us of anything has come. Fragments, cripples and hybrids formulate something that cannot be conveyed by the common whole forms and happy integrities; intensity beats standard perfection.
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photography
perfection
nature
poetry
science
perfect
cripples
fragments
hybrids
intensity
technique
rilke
thing-poem
modernity
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Peter Sloterdijk |
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And there are the very special people in our lives who have the endless capacity to love us for all of our flaws.
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love
perfect
flaws
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Cecelia Ahern |
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It was the kind of early-fall day Rachel had always loved, not warm or cold, the sky all deep-blue and cloudless and no breeze, the crops proud and ripe and the leaves so pretty but hardly a one yet fallen--a day so perfect that the earth itself seemed sorry to let it pass, so slowed down its roll into evening and let it linger.
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early-fall
linger
proud
perfect
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Ron Rash |
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She was unsettling. But sometimes there was something perfect about it.
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unsettling
perfect
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Emily St. John Mandel |
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"Grinning, I stroked his arms, over the tattoos and muscles. "Today has been fucking perfect, Judd. You can't know how perfect." "Oh, I know. I've been counting my blessings since the moment I woke up with you next to me."
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judd-and-tawny
perfect
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Bijou Hunter |
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There were just enough flaws to make her perfect.
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perfect
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Rick Moody |
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You make mistakes, people die. You move forward. Perfect people accomplish nothing.
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perfect
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Robert Ferrigno |
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If we were perfect, we'd be Wolves, right?
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wolves
perfect
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Lora Leigh |
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The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self- reliant and totally self- sufficient. It is perfect.
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universe
inspiration
life
inspirational
metaphysics
perfect
quotes
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