The Perfect Couple Quotes

“that”
― Jackie Kabler, The Perfect Couple

“sleeping animal.”
― Jackie Kabler, The Perfect Couple

“too. Before”
― Jackie Kabler, The Perfect Couple

“hell”
― Jackie Kabler, The Perfect Couple

“I begged,”
― Jackie Kabler, The Perfect Couple

“They’re complicated sometimes, family relationships, aren’t they? Love and hate, hate and love, so tightly entwined that they almost become one.”
― Jackie Kabler, The Perfect Couple

“Danny’s quite anti-social media actually. Says it’s damaging, that people end up comparing themselves to all these other people who seem to have these perfect glamourous lives, and it’s all rubbish really.”
― Jackie Kabler, The Perfect Couple

“I don’t know why I put it away again, I can never find anything in this stupid bag at the best of times.”
― Jackie Kabler, The Perfect Couple

“Albert’s our dog. He’s a black Miniature Schnauzer. Bit like a child though, I suppose. They’re super clever.”
― Jackie Kabler, The Perfect Couple

“Like”
― Jackie Kabler, The Perfect Couple

“I took a few deep breaths, my heart racing again, and wondered if I should reconsider my decision not to burden the couple of new friends I’d made so far in Bristol with all of this. I’d met Clare on Clifton Down just days after we moved in. I’d actually arrived in the city a week before Danny, who’d had work to finish up in London before he joined me, and I’d abandoned the mountain of unpacked boxes for an hour to clear my head and give Albert a decent walk. Clare had a Standard Poodle, a white curly bundle of energy who had bounded up to Albert, nuzzled him enthusiastically and then run off again, looking coyly over her shoulder. Albert had hesitated for a moment and then raced gleefully after her, leaving me and Clare standing helplessly, leads dangling from our fingers, awaiting their return”
― Jackie Kabler, The Perfect Couple

“I know,’ she’d whispered back. ‘Her husband, Alex, has family money. Something to do with banking. He only works part-time too, he’s a strategy consultant, whatever that is. But they bought this without a mortgage. Lucky, eh?”
― Jackie Kabler, The Perfect Couple

“a”
― Jackie Kabler, The Perfect Couple

“He turned away and began picking up the sheaf of papers he’d dumped on the desk earlier, shuffling them into some sort of order, and Helena watched him, her heart twisting suddenly. For all his bravado, he was definitely hurting. He’d fallen hard for Jasmine, a bright, ambitious medical registrar he’d met while interviewing a stabbing victim at Southmead Hospital, and who he’d been dating for the past year or so; he’d even, when Helena had joined him and some of the other detectives for a rare night in the pub a few months back, confided in her after several vodkas that he was considering proposing, once Jasmine had completed her training”
― Jackie Kabler, The Perfect Couple