The Perfect Find Quotes

“I don't want these clinical, awkward setups. I don't feel like doing this twenty more times. I can't imagine meeting my soulmate through an interview process. I want to know without words. I want fall so violently that I risk breaking into a million pieces. I want to love so desperately it's indecent. I want it to be wild and fated and forever. A no choice connection.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“she still loved him, and she could feel herself dying from it, like a disease.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“I want to know without words. I want to fall so violently that I risk breaking into a million pieces. I want to love so desperately it’s indecent. I want it to be wild and fated and forever. A no-choice connection.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“People search in vain forever to find what we've got. I don't know shit about anything, Jenna, and I might be inexperienced, but I know you'll never love anyone like you love me.'

'I won't she,' she whispered.

'And yet you can leave me so easily for a baby you don't have and a husband you've never met. I'm here, I'm real, and I just lost to a goddamn fantasy. I must've never really had you at all.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“Always be yourself. Unless you can be me. Then always be me.’ And here’s another one…”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“Like Elizabeth Taylor said, ‘Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“You can’t imagine the utter bottomlessness of my disinterest in your opinion.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“You put me back together when I was in pieces. You gave me confidence, and reminded me that I was lovable. You saved me.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“Do you think we'll ever get over it?" asked Eric.
"I know that I'll never be over you. But maybe that's okay. Maybe I'll meet someone that I can love in a different way, and be happy.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“But part of her calm was also knowing that those abysmal final years of their relationship could never happen to the person she was now. There's no way she could let a man make her feel so unseen for so long.

Now she knew what it was like to be seen.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“...she was reminded that he was just a person. He mad massive mistakes, he felt things, he was sorry, ad he was trying to find his way, like everyone else.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“I just keep waiting for it not to hurt so bad. Every time I meet a woman, I want her to be you. And these sweet, pretty, smart girls fail so miserably. There's nothing wrong with them; they're just not you. You know that 'other half' people spend their life looking for? I already found her. She's somewhere watching Inside the Actor's Studio and eating yellow Skittles without me. I know who she is. But I can't have her.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“I just don't like being alone. Because then I miss you too much. I start wanting to be where I can't be, and I hate that feeling.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“P.S. The older I get, the more I wonder if the secret to true happiness is knowing which dreams to let go of.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“It was like she’d left her personality in a cab somewhere years ago”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“Does she feed you?” “Like, does she cook and shit?” “No, does she feed your soul. Motivate you. Inspire you.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“Jenna. You don’t remember my son?”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“It’s when you meet someone and, no matter who they are, where they come from, or what they look like, you know that you’re made of the same stuff.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“The older I get, the more I wonder if the secret to true happiness is knowing which dreams to let go of.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“I want to fall so violently that I risk breaking into a million pieces. I want to love so desperately it’s indecent. I want it to be wild and fated and forever. A no-choice connection.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“Sempre que eu conheço uma mulher, quero que ela seja você. E essas garotas delicadas, bonitas e engraçadinhas fracassam miseravelmente. Não tem nada de errado com elas, elas só não são você. Sabe aquela “outra metade” que as pessoas passam a vida procurando? Eu já encontrei. Ela está em algum lugar assistindo Inside the Actor’s Studio e comendo Skittles amarelos sem mim. Eu sei quem ela é. Mas não posso estar com ela.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“Eu preciso perguntar. Você está saindo com alguém? — Bom… sim, mais ou menos. Você sabe. Uma coisa aqui e outra ali. Jenna sentiu um frio na barriga. Aquilo não deveria tê-la deixado surpresa, mas ela não conseguia imaginá-lo com mais ninguém. — Ah, Eric — disse ela, em tom jocoso. — Você é um ímã. — Não sou, não. Só não gosto de ficar sozinho. — Por quê? Ele olhou para a grama, elaborando cuidadosamente a resposta, depois encontrou os olhos dela. — Porque senão eu sinto muito a sua falta.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“Não consigo me imaginar conhecendo minha alma gêmea por meio de um processo de entrevista. Eu quero saber sem palavras. Quero me apaixonar com tanta violência que corro o risco de quebrar em um milhão de pedaços. Eu quero amar tão desesperadamente que chega a ser indecente. Eu quero que seja selvagem, coisa do destino, pra sempre. Uma conexão em que não há escolha. Entende o que eu quero dizer?”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“I just get scared sometimes. I love you in a really big way, and when I imagine our future, I don't see how our paths match up.'
'I don't know how it works, either. I just know I want you.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“They kissed with grasping desperation, like two dying people breathing their souls back into each other.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“I'm your air, Jenna. Me. I know where you live.' He pushed her in the chest with his index finger, hard, just over her heart. She stumbled backward.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“Jenna's the beginning and end of me.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“This moment, the three of them together, it was her default fantasy—always in the back of her mind. But she'd forbidden herself to think it was attainable. After all, was it ever possible to really have it all? Did happy endings truly exist in real life? Maybe they did. Maybe this was hers.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“Jenna walked in the direction of the playground with feet that didn’t touch the ground, headed toward her waking dream. Now, all that was left was to live it. And she did.”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find

“This moment, the three of them together, it was her default fantasy—always in the back of her mind. But she’d forbidden herself to think it was attainable. After all, was it ever possible to really have it all?”
― Tia Williams, The Perfect Find