“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
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“Fair greetings. I hope this letter finds you well. I have been counting every minute of every day we have been apart. And on every morning when I awake, the first thought I have is of you. In all my life, I never thought that I would find anyone like you. Someone who makes me laugh even when I no longer have strength even to smile. All I have to do is think of you and my heart is instantly gladded. Indeed, I keep every one of your smiles stored especially there in my heart and in my mind. You’ll never know how truly sorry I am that fate would not see us united. That things couldn’t have been different between you and me. But then there is much in my life that I regret. I hope this note finds you well and that you will smile when you think of me and not be saddened as I am saddened. I would never wish to be the source of your unhappiness. Instead, I hope you have all you desire and that someday, should things be different, you might again welcome me into your arms. Ever yours, Stryder.
-A letter to Rowena”
― Kinley MacGregor, quote from A Dark Champion
“When he held a candle across the threshold, the black swallowed the fire completely. When he tried to step across it, he felt nothing beneath his foot. Sometimes he heard rain, a bird-cry, wind soughing through tall trees; mostly he was aware only of an intimation of vastness, silence, as though he stood at the edge of a world.
He saw nothing. So he let the charcoal imagine what might lie on the other side of the door.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from Ombria in Shadow
“Since I was in church anyway, I thanked God that Addie had spent the night with Kimberley, and was not around to witness the Incredible River Disaster and its aftermath. The morning was difficult enough with only the regular amount of speculation and staring. The antique pews were not very comfortable. Davis backsides had suffered the same wooden torture for generations, and I wondered if it was any easier with voluminous skirts and petticoats.”
― Rosemary Clement-Moore, quote from The Splendor Falls
“Oh! ye poor mortals," she went on, with a sudden burst of passion; "ye beseech your gods for the gift of many years, being ignorant that ye would sow a seed within your breasts whence ye must garner ten thousand miseries. Know ye not that this world is indeed the wide house of hell, in whose chambers from time to time the spirit tarries a little while, then, weary and aghast, speeds wailing to the peace that it has won.”
― H. Rider Haggard, quote from Ayesha: The Return of She
“Vad jag vet är, att av sjuka föräldrar och sjuka lärare fostras ännu sjukare barn, tills det sjuka har blivit norm och det friska en skräckbild. Av ensamma föds ännu ensammare, av rädda ännu räddare (s. 144)”
― Karin Boye, quote from Kallocain
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