“Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.”

—  Sue Monk Kidd , book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

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