The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend Quotes

“Ruth could have left me the carry-along case. Taking a boyfriend would have been enough for most. Not Ruth. She wanted luggage too.”
― Lucy-Anne Holmes, The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend

“For example, I might think, Shit, I'm skint. In roughly four and half seconds other thoughts will also have appeared in my head. I can't pay my rent, I'll get evicted, I'll have to get a proper job to get me out of debt, I have no skills, I'll end up in King's Cross giving blow jobs for money, I'm not even very good at those. Then I will start to cry.”
― Lucy-Anne Holmes, The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend

“I seemed to be the only person in the whole of Heathrow who had realized the comfort and flexibility afforded by wearing pyjamas on a flight. After years of trying to look smart in the hope of being able to wangle an upgrade I had been elated that I didn't need to bother. So I was travelling in the comfiest clothes that Primark provided.”
― Lucy-Anne Holmes, The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend

“Sare! Why are you giving me your tax face?’
‘I'm not.’
‘You are.’
Pause.
‘Shit, I'll need to do my tax soon.”
― Lucy-Anne Holmes, The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend

“I wish I had protected the relationship. I wish I'd nurtured it like a child. Instead I said, ‘Where do you want to play? The building site or the road? And would you like a gun or a knife, or how about both and some solvents?’ So off my relationship toddled into the middle of the M25 with a Pritt Stick up its nose.”
― Lucy-Anne Holmes, The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend

“I used to be in a wonderful relationship with a bloke called Simon. We were supposed to live happily ever after. But we didn't. Our wonderful relationship followed the other oft-trod path.
It went tits up.”
― Lucy-Anne Holmes, The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend