“...I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character trapped in the amber of your skin...”

“It's not big," Veck said, "but it's flawless. That was important to me. I wanted to give you something...flawless”

“Wow that's a flawless plan, You want to pirate a pirate's ship from pirates”

“It was flawless. It was, in fact, so flawless that it didn't call attention to its own flawlessness. It was perfect.”

“When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?”

“what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been”