The Perfect Girl Quotes

“I believe that if you are lucky enough to have a child, then you should love them, whether or not society labels them as flawed, whether or not you label them as flawed. “You”
― Gilly Macmillan, The Perfect Girl

“long odds don’t always make any difference at all. Somebody always makes up that small percentage of people to whom unlikely or desperate things happen, and there’s actually nothing to say it can’t be you.”
― Gilly Macmillan, The Perfect Girl

“Grace has such simple needs. Wake, give love, receive love, refuel, expend energy, sleep. I love that about her.”
― Gilly Macmillan, The Perfect Girl

“She can do that for ages, and tonight it makes me feel super tense because I feel like the time we have left before Lucas and Chris get home is on one of those kitchen timers that click madly like a bomb that’s going to detonate until they make a screechy buzz that Lucas says sounds like a small bird being strangled.”
― Gilly Macmillan, The Perfect Girl

“Outside, I take in the fact that the night is deeply dusky and warm, and that feels like a balm after the cold air inside. I notice a strong smell from the glowing white roses that hang over the churchyard gate and the dark fluttering of bats that swarm from a high corner of the church tower. Around us, as we walk in the tired grass, gravestones whose cadaverous foundations have failed them lean against one another for support. I see a Celtic cross, the contours of lichen covered stone mounds, writing everywhere, words of remembrance, and, above us, the dark, pointed leaves of the yew tree greedily sucking away the last of the light.”
― Gilly Macmillan, The Perfect Girl

“I’m tempted to walk away from this city and this life and this relationship that’s brought me the greatest feelings of joy but also the most profound feelings of guilt. I’m tempted to nurse my sorrows elsewhere, to rethink my life.”
― Gilly Macmillan, The Perfect Girl

“At home, in the empty flat, I wish more than anything that I had somebody who would come home to me tonight, somebody I could tell, somebody who would be with me through it to the end.”
― Gilly Macmillan, The Perfect Girl

“it’s to do with not being able to let go of what Richard and I had, the perfect idea of us, even though our reality has fallen so far from that.”
― Gilly Macmillan, The Perfect Girl

“laugh. How is it that manners are so strong that they pervade all situations?”
― Gilly Macmillan, The Perfect Girl

“When you get a good, honest exchange with an officer in this situation, normally it restores your faith in your profession, boosts you up for the daily grind of criminality, because that well-behaved, professional exchange between you both feels like an honorable thing; it pushes away the thoughts of the shysters and the ambulance chasers, the doughnut munchers and the baton wielders. You become two men, in a room, upholding the law, and there’s a purity to that, a kind of distinction, which is a very rare thing on a day-to-day basis. In Zoe’s case, it made things only slightly more bearable, because the facts of her arrest were so unremittingly grim. “She’d”
― Gilly Macmillan, The Perfect Girl

“proclivity for drink. It’s an open secret in the family. His question gets Maria”
― Gilly Macmillan, The Perfect Girl