The Perfect Husband Quotes

“You swim and you keep swimming without a thought in your head because that’s what you have to do. And you do the push-ups and you jog and you do all the things beyond exhaustion because you have to. Then one day you’ll discover you’re in the zone and you don’t feel your legs anymore, you don’t feel your arms anymore. You exist just as motion. That’s the zone. Then you can do anything.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Perfect Husband

“She walked the edge of the anxiety attack, feeling the shakes and knowing that she either found solid footing now or plunged into the abyss.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Perfect Husband

“BECKETT: Do you know what I dream of, Difford? Do you know what I think about every night? I dream of the day I see my wife again. I picture sliding my hands around her neck and feeling her hands flail against my chest. I envision choking her to the edge of unconsciousness. And then, while she’s lying there, staring at me helplessly, I pick up a dull Swiss Army knife and hack off her fingers one by one. Then her ears. Then her nose. And then, then I cut out her beating heart. I’ll do it someday, Difford. And when I do, I’ll mail her heart to you. Lieutenant”
― Lisa Gardner, The Perfect Husband

“I’ve held a beating pulse between my fingers and I’ve squeezed. And it’s the best goddamn feeling in the world. DIFFORD:”
― Lisa Gardner, The Perfect Husband

“Once, when she’d taken the initiative to rub down the window casings with ammonia, Jim had even complimented her. She’d beamed at him, married one year, already eight months pregnant and as eager as a lapdog for his sparing praise. Later, Lieutenant Difford had explained to her how ammonia was one of the few substances that rid surfaces of fingerprints.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Perfect Husband

“two”
― Lisa Gardner, The Perfect Husband

“as a yes.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Perfect Husband

“over”
― Lisa Gardner, The Perfect Husband

“SpecWar superstuds were not Arnold Schwarzenegger. They were Buddhist monks.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Perfect Husband

“If you won’t take your body seriously, how is anyone else supposed to?”
― Lisa Gardner, The Perfect Husband