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“You are so very far from perfect, but when it comes to the world and to me, you will only accept absolute love, and that’s why you always feel unsatisfied, most of all with yourself, because you are incapable of the thing you desire most. That is why it isn’t easy to love you, but also why I do.”
― Mark Beauregard, The Whale: A Love Story

“He had never heard the term absolute love before. Unconditional love, yes – an equally impossible concept – but absolute? He turned it over his mind: it seemed more aggressive than grace, more demanding than acceptance, the complete opposite of resignation, something austere and grand – even literary.”
― Mark Beauregard, The Whale: A Love Story

“You wish to be my lover. That's the name for it. But I am a stranger to that form of love."
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"I am not as steady as I may appear," said Hawthorne.”
― Mark Beauregard, The Whale: A Love Story

“Hope is the best name in the world, because it is the best quality of the human mind.”
“Is it?”
“For me, it is. It’s all I have.”
― Mark Beauregard, The Whale: A Love Story