Being Loved Flaws And All Quotes

“But he also wants that feeling he had earlier, that feeling of being seen for who he is, and of being liked anyway.”
― Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

“I have, at last, come to understand my role. It is not to discourage your exuberance or your audacity. How could I want to when those are the very qualities I admire most? If I have lectured or harangued in the past, it is because I am afraid. Every moment of every day I am afraid."
"Afraid of what?" I demanded.
"Of losing that which I have come to realize I cannot live without. But I do not want a small and stifled version of you. I want you - in all your intrepid and audacious glory. I want you just as you are, the entirety of your chaos and your wildness. You are the whirlwind I did not know I needed, but now that you are here, I will not be the one to ask you to be anything different than exactly as you are. More than anyone, I ought to understand that nature cannot be denied. And your nature is tumult.”
I swallowed hard against the sudden tightness in my throat. “I am not that bad,” I managed hoarsely.
“No,” he said with a slow smile. “You are not bad at all. If I could have created - as Eliza Elyot attempted to - a perfect woman, I could never have imagined you. But that is my failure. Not yours.”
It was some time before I was mistress enough of my emotions to speak. "Only one man in a thousand - ten thousand - would have answered me as you have just done."
[some text redacted] Stoker ignored it as he rose and pulled me to my feet. "Only one woman in ten thousand would have deserved that answer.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery