Laughter Quote by Louisa May Alcott

“Some girls, I thought, were perfect shits. Other girls were very, very beautiful.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which I had…

— Marcel Proust

“There weren’t perfect people, nor were there perfect lives or perfect relationships. There were, however, perfect moments. And this was one of them.”

— Nicole Williams

“Everything was real, not perfect. And yet that's what had made it so perfect.”

— Sarah Winman

“She looked delighted by the prospect. Delighted that he might find the perfect woman. And there it was. His faith in a higher power…

— Julia Quinn

“The only man...he never would have dreamed. She had so many admirers, most, if not all, far more suitable than him and probably less…

— C.D. Hussey

“...she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were reluctant, who…

— Daphne du Maurier

“She was…perfection. One of those women who inspired vivid sexual fantasies. And for nicer guys, probably poems and songs and sappy crap like that.”

— Tina Vaughn

“For the perfect gentleman was out there somewhere, waiting for her. He would be nothing like Father, he would be an artist, with an…

— Kate Morton

“Once there was a certain lady . . . And she had no children, and generally no happiness either. And so first she cried…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“d it was true she experienced even the strongest pleasures and poignancies down pretty deep. They tended not to make it all the way…

— Ann Brashares

“What they had was rare, imperfect and beautiful and scary all at once. It was hard to say those things out loud and know…

— Piper Vaughn