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"Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty."
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"Some of the most amazing people in the world were not perfect; they were scarred by suffering, hardships, losses and imperfections."
"Do you generally feel uncomfortable around people whom you perceive to be perfect? Is there really such a thing as the perfect person? Of course not! Our flaws are often what differentiates us from each other, and no person is perfect."
"If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn't be able to make even a single drop of honey."
"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
"The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?"
"It is possible to draw a straight line with a crooked pencil."
"I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty."
"I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest."
"In this temporal existence, perfection is an illusion, regardless of those who believe in its concept. Perfection is devoid of any value. Perfection, after all, implies you've reached the zenith. There is no possibility or potentiality. There is no room for imagination. There is no ability to visualize a concept. Perfection is limited by its own nature, which in short, is zero."
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"Anyone who offers their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get."
"Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as wobbling back and forth. Tilting freely, to and fro. One does not like to think that sometimes it is the angel that falls."
"She looks honestly upset, but then, I've learned that I can't read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they're always lying."
"Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways."
"His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before."
"When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining."
"I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have."
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