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"Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty."
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"Imperfection contains more information than perfection."
"I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty."
"Monk... not monk but Andrian Monk makes mistakes if he makes then and we can."
"There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness."
"Some of the most amazing people in the world were not perfect; they were scarred by suffering, hardships, losses and imperfections."
"If someone finds a flaw [shortcoming] in us, know that there is imperfection [defect] in us. However, it is a different matter if that person has a habit of talking negatively, but generally that is not the case."
"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."
"Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere."
"All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses."
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"Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts."
"I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"
"I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion."
"Ben was taking her through the storm of grief. He was singing her through the rage and despair. He was singing her through the terrible loneliness, because there was no way to shut off grief, no way to cast it aside or fight against it. The only way to end grief was to go through it.As she realized that, his song began to change. It grew softer, sweeter, like the morning after a long cry, when your head still hurt but your heart was no longer broken."
"She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for."
"Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way."
"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."
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