The Perfect Marriage Quotes

“Even when you have nothing left in your life, hope is the one thing that can never be taken away.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“I always test people. If they can’t handle me at my worst, they don’t deserve me at my best,”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“That’s the funny thing about dreams. You always eventually wake up from them.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“It burns, but a good type of burn, like the small fires we sometimes need in our lives to remind us that we are alive.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“That’s the thing about relationships, you never really know what’s going on in them, unless you’re a part of them.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“My mother made me wise, made me independent, made me learn how to fight for myself.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“Your son is a liar, a cheater, and possibly a murderer. Your coddling and over-the-top mothering has gotten Adam into this mess. The best thing you could do as a mother is to take note from mine and kill yourself.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“Did he love her? He loved parts of her. But the question isn’t whether or not he loved her. The question is… did he kill her?”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“I’ve always believed the eyes cannot lie. They hold the truths we are unable or unwilling to speak. Her eyes full, large, and bursting with pain.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“There’s no point in arguing with her. Parents are typically delusional when it comes to their children.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“It’s the only reason the human race isn’t extinct, because people with no purpose breed,”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“She was trying to make herself as small as possible, blending into the background, going unnoticed. But to me, she was the only person in that room.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“I’ve always felt like Sarah was taking on the world, while I was just struggling to live in it.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“a human without hope is a wild animal.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“Standing by my husband when he didn’t stand by me.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“I’ll never know what really happened between Kelly and Greg or Kelly and Scott. Was she a victim of the men in her life? Was she abused? Or was she a girl who cried wolf? I’ll never know and neither will anyone else. That’s the thing about relationships, you never really know what’s going on in them, unless you’re a part of them.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“It’s what I do when I don’t know what to do. I tidy. I clean things up.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“Kelly gives me the love that Sarah can no longer. They both complete me. It’s sick I know, but it’s true. I need them both.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“the eyes cannot lie. They hold the truths we are unable or unwilling to speak.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“I always test people. If they can’t handle me at my worst, they don’t deserve me at my best,” he says, raising his chin. “But there is no best with you, Matthew.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“Must be a good book. It’s probably not one of mine.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“That's the thing about relationships, you never know what's going on in them, unless you're a part of them.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“My life is back to being exactly what I wanted it to be… and I intend to keep it that way.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“I know for a fact it wasn’t you.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“There’s never not an ulterior motive, another angle to the play. She’s always in control… of everything.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“We all have our own truth and everything outside that truth is just a story.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“Sarah doesn’t make any gesture, sound, or remark to let me know how displeased she is with me. To let me know how much she hates me. And then I wonder, Does she even care? Does she care that I was cheating on her? Or is she trying to be strong? Is she trying to be professional? I can’t tell. I can’t read her. She’s my wife, and at this moment, I don’t even know her. The look she gives me is cold and distant. Her movements are almost robotic. Her eyes are clear and calculating.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“From time to time I flinch as a large drop of water, having pooled in the leaves high above, catches the back of my neck. This subtle reminder doesn’t let me forget how weak and cold and alone I am. I look up into the canopy to search for some sort of illumination and warmth, but this is blocked by the very leaves that are crying upon me. They deny me any such respite but continue to point their arms away, encouraging me to do no more than leave them alone.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“I always test people. If they can’t handle me at my worst, they don’t deserve me at my best,” he says raising his chin.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“but a good type of burn, like the small fires we sometimes need in our lives to remind us that we are alive.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage