The Idea of Perfection Quotes

“Husbands adored you, too, at least at first.
Being adored was something she had come to mistrust.
She felt adoration to be a small and lovely-looking bomb that could blow up in your face at any time.”
― Kate Grenville, The Idea of Perfection

“It was a long time since whe's been young and it was unlikely that she'd ever been lovely. She stood like a man, square-on. Her breasts pushed out the old tee-shirt, but it was clear from the way she stood that she'd forgotten about breasts being sexy. Her breasts made bulges in her shirt, the same way her knees made bulges in her black track pants, that was all.”
― Kate Grenville, The Idea of Perfection

“plaintive”
― Kate Grenville, The Idea of Perfection

“All this, grassy paddock, cows, trees - he had thought it was Nature. But now he could see that that was ignorance, or lack of imagination. It was not Nature. It was actually property.”
― Kate Grenville, The Idea of Perfection