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“If we women did not love you for your defects, where would you all be? Not one of you would ever be married. You would be a set of unfortunate bachelors.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Perhaps it is our lot—to never have the fathers we wish, but to still hope they might surpass what they are, flaws and all.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I have no interest in easy friends—easy people. I think I trust them less than the difficult ones, and find them far less compelling, too.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn