Her Perfect Family Quotes

“It’s the worst thing, isn’t it, for someone to ask if you are OK when you are not OK. It’s the last thing you need.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“It’s so hard to call what people are capable of. So many with dark minds live perfectly ordinary lives, holding down demanding jobs. Matthew’s learned to keep an open mind. Always.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“Instead she takes in the silence. How it eats right into her flesh. The emptiness – both around her and deep inside her too.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“She pinches her cheeks and tries to imagine how the addition of make-up might help. But no. There is no lipstick in the world that can fix this.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“This mother who messed up; who got it so very wrong but who has always loved her with every ounce of my being.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“It’s an odd book about a group of girls who find themselves alone on an island with the option to send only one three-word text message each day to the outside world. No incoming messages are allowed and no other connection to the internet. The cover of the novel has an oasis of palm trees in a sea ominously coloured red.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“It’s the worst thing, isn’t it, for someone to ask if you are OK when you are not OK.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“girl’s in a coma with part of her leg gone. Anyone with any decency and any information has a duty to come forward. I have no idea why you wouldn’t see that, Wendy. And why were you at the university the other day?”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“Wendy’s card has just been found at Sam Blake’s home, among the wife Lily’s clothes. It was tucked in the pocket of a raincoat that looked as if it had been worn recently. Further inspection suggests the wife recently packed some of her clothes. This fits with neighbours’ suggestions that she’s”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“Firearms are the territory of drugs crime and gangs, not domestics. And how the hell would nice, middle-class Lily even get a gun?”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“Nasty is not the word in Matthew’s head. Rage is the word. He takes in the blood and the Halloween horror of the eye socket. The person who did this was, in the moment at least, full of anger beyond anything most people could imagine.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“True. But we can’t let that rule her out. She could have a contact here we don’t know about.’ Matthew scratches the back of his head. ‘And she may be too unwell for the motive to be rational. Do we have anything more on her medical condition?”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“And so I closed it down and pretended I had a different childhood. And I’ve tried to gift that childhood to Gemma. The better version. The perfect version. The version with no rows. No conflict at all.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“This makes Alex laugh for the first time and Matthew feels another shift inside; the guy in the blanket no longer sounding like or looking like a man who has any intention whatsoever of ending his life.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“To be perfectly honest, I’ve hated this because it feels sort of dirty and seedy and underhand. And yeah – I get that an affair with a married man is, in theory, dirty and seedy and underhand but I’ve always told myself it’s not like that with us because his marriage is over anyway.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“Ed glanced once more around the room. He wished they were back in the UK with the nice, reliable NHS. He liked the NHS. He knew where he was with the NHS with its tired look and its practical furniture. OK, it was horribly underfunded and it didn’t have coordinated decor with fancy accents, but his experience across the few dramas of his lifetime – appendicitis and a broken leg – had been good. The staff brilliant.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“I’m going to be frank, Inspector. We already have foreign students cancelling their courses. The blow to income is considerable. Parents are ringing in constantly. I want people to be safe too. But I also want my university to survive. It would be a lift if we could end the summer with a happier memory.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“But every now and again, when I ask the wrong question – especially about the past – he gets like this. Defensive, wearing an expression that is warning me off. No. It’s worse than a warning. It’s like it’s not my Ed at all.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“But what if she is a suspect? What if he’s called it all wrong? We’ve lost days, Matt. It’s unforgiveable for him to withhold this from us.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“And then the second we got back to my room at the flat, Alex’s face changed right in front of me. No kidding – it was like Jekyll and Hyde. He started asking me why I felt it was OK to openly flirt with a waiter in front of him. What waiter?”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“He could not know that one day, he would wake up to visit the bathroom and she would be screaming and screaming and screaming. And everything would suddenly swirl and spiral into a dark, dark place like the rainwater rushing for the drains as they hurried to the Hedgehog Café that very first day.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“There have been a number of similar approaches in recent months – all politely declined. He should laugh it off but in truth, it depresses him. Why don’t people take his work more seriously?”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“So why is Alex saying he came here? Why did he cause the scene and frighten us all? Because he’s angry. Bitter? Surely that makes it more likely that he could have been involved in the shooting.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“The first sight of her. Is it possible it’s simply a coincidence? Two cathedrals? Is he deluding himself as he clings on tight, tight, tight to the hope that this could just be a terrible and horrible coincidence?”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“My supposedly perfect boyfriend. Not physical, he didn’t hit me or anything, but he did for the first time actually scare me. I honestly had no idea his temper could be that bad. I’ve actually never seen anyone”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“Sal, you have to stop that, love. This is no one’s fault but the bastard who shot that poor girl in the cathedral. Amelie will get past this with our help. We’ll make her feel safe again, Sal. Kids are resilient. We just need to give her a bit of time.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“A see-saw of different worries. He either has too much work or not enough. When business is hectic, he worries about balancing it with family life. When work’s slow, he worries about paying the bills. The upshot is he worries more and sleeps less.”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“asked last night if either of you noticed any change in Gemma. Anything troubling her. I was wondering if you’d had time to think about that? I mean – if you had any suspicions about the pregnancy? If there had been any discussion or hints or any kind of upset over it?”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

“Still the police are saying there’s no evidence to suggest terrorism. There’s nothing, in fact, to confirm or suggest any motive or suspect at all. The appeal is repeated for photographs or video recorded on the many smartphones”
― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family

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― Teresa Driscoll, Her Perfect Family