“A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton , A Stroke of Midnight

Ivi; p. 147
Source: Merry Gentry series, A Stroke of Midnight (2005)

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