“there’s nothing wrong with a man who enjoys a good romance book. My dad always said the best way to learn what a woman wants is to pick up some of the smut they love to read so much. Written by a woman, it might as well be a road map to instant pleasure.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“When I look in the mirror, I won’t see the things they will most likely say about me. I’ll see me, Willow Tate, the woman who isn’t perfect, but she is perfect in her imperfections.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“No, let me finish. There isn’t beauty in perfection. It’s as fake as the image the word projects. Beauty is found in imperfection, Willow, because to admit you’re not perfect means you’re admitting you’re not whole and absolute. When I think of myself, I see someone willing to admit he’s as far from complete as it gets because, in order to get to that perfection, I need to find the other part of me who will make my life better. To take all the faults I have and fill them, and only then will I be there. You see, the way I see it, the only way to become perfect is to find that perfectly imperfect person who brings it out of you.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“You know, if you spent more time reading those romance books, you would have figured this out before now.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“I’m the imperfect to his perfect.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“A person can be stronger than fear tries to trick them into believing.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“It isn’t that I’m a weak person. I’m a product of self-destruction, or so my therapist tells me. I’m a battlefield of strength versus weakness and reality versus my own mind. I don’t look in the mirror and hate myself because I’m weak. No, I hate myself because even though my clothes and the scale tell me one thing, I can’t see it. It takes all the strength a person can muster to continue fighting his or her own self-image. Fighting to find their way back from the damage they’ve done to themselves physically and mentally.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“We win. Our love wins. They can say what they want. Hate me, make me the villain, and do their worst to try to rip me apart. They only win if we let them, and that will never happen.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“the only way to become perfect is to find that perfectly imperfect person who brings it out of you.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“Hestitation is a dangerous thing. It hints that something is hiding when you take that pause.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“Life isn't what others want for you, but what you want for yourself.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“I’m not proud of it, but I celebrated karma’s brilliance in a drunken rage of laughter, facemasks, and nail polish. So”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“Those women hold nothing to you.
They aren't the ones I want. You are.
If I have to knock each and every one of those
fears out of your mind, I'll gladly do it
if it means you understand, without a
shadow of doubt, that when I look at
you, I fucking love what I see.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“Didn’t anyone ever tell you that life starts at the end of your comfort zone? When you break free of the fears that have held you back, you’re going to be free to fly, and that, honey, is when you’re going to find the happiness you deserve. But you have to start somewhere. You have to push that fear aside and just wing it—trusting you will never be alone should you fall.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“It’s time to take that leap and be what he believes is something achievable. Finally shed the weakness old Willow wore as a cloak of protection and allow my determination to be stronger and to be all the armor I need to protect myself.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“You don’t see how beautiful you are because you’re too busy hiding to avoid more pain.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“She has to be able to show others the hope they need is within themselves and that you are stronger than fear tries to trick you into believing.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“Recognizing when you hit the ground of rock bottom and it turns into quicksand puts into perspective that you really don't have anything left to lose.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“I want someone real. I need a challenge.
I want to feel that connection to someone
I've never been able to find.
The one you read about.
The one that makes you feel alive.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“I allow my sobs to join the tears as I leave the only man who will ever hold my heart behind.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“I was my own martyr. I stayed because, in a sense, I believed I deserved it.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“I have the love of the greatest man and his family. But most of all, I have the love of my own self and each and every perfectly imperfect moment I’ve lived, loved, and won.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“I’ve lived that life—where the bullies around you want nothing more than to watch you drown. It doesn’t take a physical person to be your shield, but you turning into someone new. Being reborn in a sense as someone stronger. What did he say? Thriving in the face of the fall. “In”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“I flap my arm out in the air but quickly drop it when I remember I’m wearing a tank top … the number one enemy of a chubby girl is the skin under her arms. I always feel like it’s just jiggling like crazy.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“You’re better than this, Willow. You’ve come so far. Don’t let her take everything you’ve earned from you. You aren’t weak anymore. No one has that power over you but yourself.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“This feeling of bone-deep contentment, the connection to someone that feels physical even without a tangible touch, that is what I’ve been missing.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“The magnificence that we both see in each other will only intensify the beauty we see in ourselves. He”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
“My dad always said the best way to learn what a woman wants is to pick up some of the smut they love to read so much. Written by a woman, it might as well be a road map to instant pleasure.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Perfectly Imperfect
Harper Sloan
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“First of all, you have heard me talk of Logres. It was the old name for this country, thousands of years ago; in the old days when the struggle between good and evil was more bitter and open than it is now. That struggle goes on all round us all the time, like two armies fighting. And sometimes one of them seems to be winning and sometimes the other, but neither has ever triumphed altogether. Nor ever will,” he added softly to himself, “for there is something of each in every man.”
― Susan Cooper, quote from Over Sea, Under Stone
“It would have surprised Mrs. Thornton very much to have been told that hitherto she had meant practically nothing to her children. She took a keen interest in Psychology (the Art Babblative, Southey calls it). She was full of theories about their upbringing which she had not time to put into effect; but nevertheless she thought she had a deep understanding of their temperaments and was the center of their passionate devotion.”
― Richard Hughes, quote from A High Wind in Jamaica
“She had no startling brilliancy of beauty, no pearly whiteness, no radiant carnation. She had not the majestic contour that rivets attention, demands instant wonder, and then disappoints by the coldness of its charms. You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Warden
“How many miles to Babylon?
Three-score and ten.
Can I get there by candle-light?
Yes, there and back again.
If your heels are nimble and light,
You will get there by candle-light”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from An Artificial Night
“Той харесва това, което прави. Използването на острие е нещо лично. То е гневна постъпка, но също така е акт на удоволствие. Като да убиеш любовница. Единственото по-интимно е да убиваш с голи ръце. С острие убиваш непознатата, която обичаш. Това е знак на уважение, благодарност за смъртта, с която те дарява. - Обгръщам кървавата стая с жест. - Пускането на кръв може да бъде интимно или лично. Кръвта е живот. Режеш непознатата, която обичаш, за да си близо до кръвта, когато започне да тече. Кръвта също така е пътека към смъртта. Източваме кръвта на прасетата по сравнително същия начин. Въпросът е как ги приема той? Като прасета или любовници? Дали са нищо за него, или са всичко?”
― Cody McFadyen, quote from The Face of Death
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