The Trouble with Perfect Quotes

“Sometimes you have to do things you don’t like, Anna, because it’s good for somebody else,”
― Helena Duggan, The Trouble with Perfect

“The skies in Town were usually clear,”
― Helena Duggan, The Trouble with Perfect

“There is no ‘them’ and ‘us’. We are men and women and children and husbands and wives and No-Man’s-Landers and Perfectionists. We are all these labels and we are none. We are simply people, and we fight for that simple truth.”
― Helena Duggan, The Trouble with Perfect

“No. She’d be something smart and mysterious and strong. She’d be something magical. I know she’d be a raven.”
― Helena Duggan, The Trouble with Perfect

“Last year, she’d developed a tactic to combat the estate’s awful effects. She told herself the feelings weren’t real. They were only thoughts, bad thoughts that made her sad and scared, and she didn’t need to believe her bad thoughts if she didn’t want to.”
― Helena Duggan, The Trouble with Perfect

“Mam always tells me I’ve to talk about things, especially bad things. She said that if you don’t talk about the bad things, they can get stuck in your head and get much worse. Then they turn into really bad things, when they were probably not that bad at all to start with.”
― Helena Duggan, The Trouble with Perfect

“Maybe she’s just stressed? Adults get that a lot. I think it’s like the flu, or something.”
― Helena Duggan, The Trouble with Perfect