Bitter sweet Quote by Jamie Ford

“More and more, I felt that I was meeting people like Lee who didn't at all seem part of this modern world and this…

— Susan Orlean

“But Henry was pretty irritating himself, with his steadfast way of remaining naive, as though life were just what a Sears catalogue told you…

— Elizabeth Strout

He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.

— Jamie Ford

“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas…

— Yann Martel

“Imperfects are funny, lovable and perfect to be happy. Perfects are appreciated and left alone everytime!!!.”

— Nelson Jack

“I might like to believe that every day, every hour, every minute of every hour of every day with Henry was *not* the happiest…

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

“Henry’s a perfectionist, I mean, really-really kind of inhuman — very brilliant, very erratic and enigmatic. He’s a stiff, cold person, Machiavellian, ascetic and…

— Donna Tartt

“For me, reading that scene never fails to bring on a brief, scalding instant of recognition in recalling exactly what it was like to…

— Wendy McClure

“ever there was a woman who was all perfection, that one is my poor wronged darling.”

— Bram Stoker

“Henry had never felt so happy. Freshperson year had been one thing, an adventure, an exhilaration, all in all a success, but it had…

— Chad Harbach

“Hearing my brother’s words coming out of Henry, this stranger in a strange town, made me feel wild with all the loss—wild and wired…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

“And in the cool evenings after his mother had gone to bed, he learned to play a friendly game of cards, bluffing without blinking,…

— Victoria Wilcox