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• ... every available inch of his face busts into a smile - whoa. Has he blown into our school on a gust of wind from another world? The guy looks unabashedly jack-o'-lantern happy, which couldn't be more foreign to the sullen demeanor most of us strove to perfect.

  Jandy Nelson

  School, Wind, Guy

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.15, Penguin

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• The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Found, Runners

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• Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Mother, Children, Men

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• It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.

  Anne Ursu

  Talking, White, Fluffy

  Anne Ursu (2011). “Breadcrumbs”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug?

  Cecelia Ahern

  Lonely, Couple, Cutting

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Together, Titles, Littles

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I had let want in, opened the door ever so slightly. But want without the belief you can get what you want is pointless. You have to hope, so I let that in too. You have to. To want things and go for them and believe, even in impossible situations...Hope was what you had when you had nothing else. Hope was the perfect shiny top on the Christmas tree, the glowing halo of every wish, the endless beacon of a lighthouse bringing tormented ships home at last.

  Deb Caletti

  Believe, Home, Glowing

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got.

  Candace Bushnell

  Perfect Parents, Hands, Play

  "Young Anacostia Teacher Built a Family of Admirers" by Joe Holley, www.washingtonpost.com. April 24, 2005.

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• I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.

  Sarah Dessen

  Real, Unrequited Love, Mean

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.145, Penguin

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• Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sleep, Beloved, Spite

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.74, 谷月社

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• As real as,' said Eddie. 'As real as what?' said Jack. 'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns. None of us are perfect, are we? I can get started. As big as, as obscene as, as foul as. But I can't get any further. But that's life for you again. As unfair as...

  Robert Rankin

  Real, Wish, Nouns

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• I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.

  Sarah Dessen

  Knowing, Together, Way

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• lets go back, back to the begining back to when the earth the sun the stars they all aligned, cause perfect didn't feel so perfect tryin to fit a square into a circle was no life i defy

  Hilary Duff

  Letting Go, Stars, Squares

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• With respect to love we speak continually about perfection and the perfect person. With respect to love Christianity also speaks continually about perfection and the perfect person. Alas, but we men talk about finding the perfect person in order to love him. Christianity speaks about being the perfect person who limitlessly loves the person he sees.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Order, Speak

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• ...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Strong, Jobs, Men

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who say, I’d never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you’ll have a story to tell. Or not to tell.

  Deb Caletti

  Mistake, Lying, Stupid

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson’s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control. Every unwanted movement in my hand or arm, every twitch that I cannot anticipate or arrest, is a reminder that even in the domain of my own being, I am not calling the shots. I tried to exert control by drinking myself to a place of indifference, which just exacerbated the sense of miserable hopelessness.

  Michael J. Fox

  Drinking, Destiny, Hands

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• That stupid Charlie Brown! He had the nerve to say I'm not perfect!" "So I suppose you hit him, huh?" "Rats! I knew I forgot something!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Stupid, Nerves, Rats

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• "Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults." "Is he?" "All boys are." "More than girls?" "Very likely."

  Charlotte Bronte

  Girl, Wise, Caring

  "Villette".

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• Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Men, Looks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But the world moves on, even when you don’t want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops. That’s harsh and magical and somewhat comforting because nothing is immutable, however much we want it to be. Moments cannot be caught like fossils in amber, ever- perfect,ever-beautiful. They go dark and raw, full of shadows, leaving you with the memories. And the world moves on.

  Ann Aguirre

  Beautiful, Memories, Moving

  "Aftermath". Book by Ann Aguirre, August 30, 2011.

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• A bean bag is a perfect place to sulk. You can sink way down deep, and sulk for hours... You only have to stick your head up once in a while... to see if anybody cares.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Bags, Care, Way

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• The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Dream, Enemy, Total War

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• The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

  Marcel Proust

  Atheist, Denial, Praise

  Le Cote de Guermantes (The GuermantesWay) pt. 2 (1921) (translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin)

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• There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.

  Amy Waldman

  Decision, Made, Circumstances

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan

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