Perfection in anything is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection. - Colleen McCullough

...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.

We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.

Her tears were blinding her, the grief in her heart new, for until now she had never owned anything worth grieving for.