With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

Scott Westerfeld
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I felt that I had been given a chance at perfection and so had she. In this muddled world, where everything seems so imperfect, I had been given a chance at perfection. We both thought that our perfect world could stay perfect forever, but it couldn’t. Reality was coming for us at any moment, and ever since it had been coming, we were unable to hold on to the perfection we had known.

Source: Pretties

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