Characterization Quote by Stephen R. Donaldson

““He was too many things at once - a boy, a man, and everything in between - and the differing parts of himself seldom came into balance. She found him attractive in that way. Yet the perception saddened her: she herself wasn't too many things, but too few.””

Stephen R. Donaldson

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