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• you might not be the first person l kissed, but you will be the last' Jamie to Claire in Outlander (not word perfect)

  Diana Gabaldon

  Might, Lasts, Firsts

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• It suddenly made sense. Only twice in his life had he felt this inexplicable, almost mystical attraction to a woman. He’d thought it remarkable, to have found two, when in his heart he’d always believed there was only one perfect woman out there for him. His heart had been right. There was only one.

  Julia Quinn

  Soulmate, Heart, Two

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• One in All All in One-- If only this is realized, No more worry about your not being perfect (175)

  Edward Conze

  Peace, Worry, Ifs

  Edward Conze (1959). “Buddhist Scriptures”, [Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; Baltimore] : Penguin Books

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• The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. -Dionysus

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Fall, Machines

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• The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.

  Gary Chapman

  Beloved, Persons

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• Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

  Anthony de Mello

  Happiness, Sorry, Fear

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.54, Image

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• Too perfect to be sexually attractive.

  William S. Burroughs

  Attractive, Sexually

  William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.220, Grove Press

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• Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Wall, Mean

  "Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

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• Did ya get in a couple of good swipes?" Emmett asked eagerly. "No! Of course not!" "No, not really? You really didnt attack him?" "Emmett!" I protested. "Aw, what a waste. And here you're probably the one person who could take him- since he can't get into your head to cheat- and you had a perfect excuse too. I've been dying to see how he'd do without that advantage.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Couple, Dying, Waste

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• Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say. "Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he says. "Look at the courage Peeta just displayed!" It's all I can do not to slap him.

  Suzanne Collins

  Perfect One, Cameras, Looks

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.141, Scholastic Inc.

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• But once I'd come up with it, I realized it really was the perfect plan. Instead of waiting for Maria to come to me, I was simply going to go to her and, well... Send her back to where she came. Or reduce her to a mound of quivering gelatinous goo. Whichever came first.

  Meg Cabot

  Waiting, Firsts, Come Up

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Young Blood”, p.107, Pan Macmillan

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• I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Oddities, Cabinets

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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• This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

  Stanislav Grof

  Trying, World, Rams

  Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennett (1992). “The holotropic mind: the three levels of human consciousness and how they shape our lives”, Harpercollins

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• Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

  Haruki Murakami

  World, Pointless Things, Remove

  "Sputnik Sweetheart". Book by Haruki Murakami, www.theguardian.com. April 2001.

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• I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight.

  Cecil Castellucci

  Coffee, Chocolate, Pirouettes

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• It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Mistake, Perfection, Making Mistakes

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• Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant about the sound of billions of very small feet hitting the stones in perfect time. Rincewind stepped gingerly over the marching column. The Librarian jumped it. The Luggage, of course, followed them with a noise like someone tapdancing over a bag of crisps.

  Terry Pratchett

  Feet, Sound, Bags

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• People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

  Colum McCann

  People, Half, Quarters

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.260, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.

  Elizabeth Lowell

  Forgiveness, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  Elizabeth Lowell, Barbara McCauley (2003). “Summer Gold”, Silhouette

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• I was perfect- not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place

  Stephenie Meyer

  Firsts, Healed, Ifs

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• That sucks, though," Wes said finally, his voice low. "You're just setting yourself up to fail, because you'll never get everything perfect." "Says who?" He just looked at me. "The world," he said, gesturing all around us, as if this party, this deck encompassed it all. "The universe. There's just no way. And why would you want everything to be perfect, anyway?" "I don't want everything to be perfect," I said. Just me, I thought. Somehow. "I just want—

  Sarah Dessen

  Party, Voice, World

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.139, Penguin

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• There are no 'ifs' in God's Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside it.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus, Mad, Kingdoms

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.234, Chosen Books

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• And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Delight, Pure

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.58, Broadview Press

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• Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

  Gerard Way

  Music, Beautiful, Song

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• Later it might see moronic, but at that time it all made perfect sense.

  Pete Hautman

  Might, Made

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