“To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.”
“And they're also very foolish, because no human being can ever make another human being completely happy. Human beings are far too imperfect for that.”
“Love is rarely flawless,” Carter pointed out. “Humans delude themselves by thinking it has to be. It is the imperfection that makes love perfect.”
“How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!”
“as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!”
“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”