The Perfect Marriage Quotes

“His diplomas hung on the wall, which she always thought was tacky, suggestive of some type of intellectual insecurity.”
― Adam Mitzner, The Perfect Marriage

“Looks like we’re both early worms,” she said. “Birds,” he said. “What?” “Early birds. They’re the ones who catch the worms. Worms are always there, I think.”
― Adam Mitzner, The Perfect Marriage

“Nothing born of sin ever ends well.”
― Adam Mitzner, The Perfect Marriage

“evening than in James’s”
― Adam Mitzner, The Perfect Marriage

“But you know what they say—if the second marriage is successful, the first one wasn’t a failure.”
― Adam Mitzner, The Perfect Marriage

“smiled, settling the issue.”
― Adam Mitzner, The Perfect Marriage

“For cops it was like the joke about the chicken and the pig concerning a bacon and egg breakfast. The chicken is involved, but the pig is committed.”
― Adam Mitzner, The Perfect Marriage

“For months after, James had considered how the world would be different if his father had not been driving across that intersection at exactly the same moment the truck had entered it. What if his father had been delayed even thirty seconds before getting behind the wheel? What if he hadn’t made a light ten blocks north? Or if the truck driver had started his journey five minutes later? All the infinite variables that could have been different.”
― Adam Mitzner, The Perfect Marriage

“pursuing something that required a long-term payoff made no sense.”
― Adam Mitzner, The Perfect Marriage

“the biologists, the chemists, and the physicists, exercising all the fake authority with which high school teachers are imbued.”
― Adam Mitzner, The Perfect Marriage

“was never happy with”
― Adam Mitzner, The Perfect Marriage

“by people suffering from addiction, be it drugs or alcohol or something else. They all share a commonality regarding the anticipation, combined with the fear of getting caught, the thrill of the act in the moment, followed by guilt, then a powerful need for more. Which, of course, is what makes it such a vicious cycle.”
― Adam Mitzner, The Perfect Marriage