The Perfect Match Quotes

“You want to be treated like an adult? Then you need to grow up.”
― Kristan Higgins, The Perfect Match

“My idea of outdoor activity is taking my book outside”
― Kristan Higgins, The Perfect Match

“Men didn’t feel the same way women did about sex. They’d take it when offered, same as they wouldn’t pass up a cookie warm from the oven. No, it was the women who counted calories and fell in love.”
― Kristan Higgins, The Perfect Match

“She wasn't used to men being jealous. It was a freakishly new sensation, and not one hundred percent bad, if she was being honest. Seventy-five percent bad, sure. Twenty-five percent thrilling, in a guilty sort of way.”
― Kristan Higgins, The Perfect Match

“The walk of shame, please. It was the walk of pride today.”
― Kristan Higgins, The Perfect Match

“For the record, a mechanical engineer is responsible for how just about anything is built. We make sure any type of structure or vehicle or roadway is strong, safe and will stay together.”
― Kristan Higgins, The Perfect Match

“She wondered if he could see himself in a mirror. If he sparkled.”
― Kristan Higgins, The Perfect Match

“something? Sometimes she’d go to a movie with Honor, though she clucked about the unsanitary nature of theaters, theater staff and humans in general. Hmm. Mrs. Johnson was probably her best bet. They could bring Spike, who loved movies as well as popcorn. At that moment, her phone rang, startling her so much that she sloshed her coffee. Spike barked from her little doggy bed and began leaping up against Honor’s leg, tearing”
― Kristan Higgins, The Perfect Match

“* * * WHEN TOM CAME home, it was much later than he’d planned. But he’d taken the shuttle bus to school, because only bungholes drove after drinking whiskey, and Tom was a bunghole in some ways, but not that way. Drunk driving, driving while texting, walking while texting...it would not be the way he died. So he’d done some work on a demonstration he’d be showing the students about wind sheer and torque and made good use of his time at school. Might as well. Then, Droog had shown up, and he and Tom ended up getting a beer, and Tom told his boss the news that he was getting married. “Ah!” Droog cried. “You and Mees Holland have dee cleek! Yes!”
― Kristan Higgins, The Perfect Match

“She wanted a man’s face to light up when he saw her. She wanted a man to kiss her like his heart would stop if he didn’t”
― Kristan Higgins, The Perfect Match

“Rather tiring to a person whose idea of outdoor activity was taking her book outside to read. “All”
― Kristan Higgins, The Perfect Match

“I’m all used up inside, love.” Two tears slid down her cheeks. “That’s not how I see you at all.” “Which says more about you than it does about me, darling. I’m sorry.” He”
― Kristan Higgins, The Perfect Match