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The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels

by Edward St. Aubyn

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“In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions

tags: perfection, perfectionism

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“...all readings are provisional, and that maybe we read heroines for what we need from them at the time.”
― Samantha Ellis, How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much

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“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

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“So I've started wearing sweatpants to bed because I really don't need Santa seeing me in my underwear.”
― Jeff Kinney, Cabin Fever

tags: behavior, santa, sleep

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“If you don’t have a dog--at least one--there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”
― Vincent van Gogh

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