“I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.”

— Kristin Hannah, book The Nightingale

Variant: He loves a version of me that is incomplete. I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.
Source: The Nightingale

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