The Perfect Friend Quotes

“Whatever it takes to make her happy, I’ll do. We’ll write a bucket list together, and if I don’t have enough money myself to pay for everything she wants to do, I’ll start fundraising if needs be to make it come true. It is the very, very least I can do. My penance seems minuscule in comparison to my crime.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“I am a Russian doll of secrets, so many cradled one inside the other, all looking like me but diminishing until what is left is so tiny I fear I’m disappearing.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“Fight for what you want, because no one is simply going to hand it over because you’re a good girl who plays by the rules. If you’re not doing something every day that you’d be proud to put on your gravestone, then you’re not living right.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“when we need people that we’re most likely to isolate ourselves.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“some of the biggest lies people tell are to themselves”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“Above, chiffon clouds easily overtake me as they race one another in a cerulean sky.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“But I also know from bitter experience that sometimes it’s when we need people that we’re most likely to isolate ourselves.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“Even though our experiences were so different, at the root of our issues were similar emotions: fear, anger, difficulty in coping, the urge to pretend to be strong as we fell apart. Dealing with the change in the way people reacted to us. The sense that our lives were split into Before and After.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“This started as little white lies. Then the white turned to a black blight that blotted out everything, running out of control.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“It’s my philosophy for life: be more dog. Right, I don’t worry about the past or the future, just live in the moment, like pooches do. Even if a dog loses its leg, it just runs on three legs rather than crying about what it’s lost. What’s the point of worrying about things you can’t control?”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend

“After losing Elise and Edward I’d felt a painful emptiness at first. But then something worse had happened: all the love that should have been poured into them had nowhere to go. It filled me up until I felt like an overinflated balloon ready to pop with a bang.”
― Barbara Copperthwaite, The Perfect Friend