Helena Duggan > Quotes

“I’m not wearing any glasses. But I can see! I’m not blind.” William laughed again, a big,”
― Helena Duggan, A Place Called Perfect

“Violet recognized something in his features and his suspicion suddenly made sense.”
― Helena Duggan, A Place Called Perfect

“Maybe tea was the answer to everything.”
― Helena Duggan, A Place Called Perfect

“My brothers made everyone in Perfect blind and now they’re all to blind to see how blind they are. It really is a conundrum.”
― Helena Duggan, A Place Called Perfect

“William Archer was here, full of life and nothing to fear.”
― Helena Duggan, A Place Called Perfect

“But now, well, I just accept my lot like everyone else in here and I hide myself inside this workshop. It’s strange, that in life, in whatever form it takes, goes on outside these walls while everyone in No-Man’s-Land just exists; I just exist.”
― Helena Duggan, A Place Called Perfect

“He said from now on, he’s going to stick to making tea. It brings people together!”
― Helena Duggan, The Battle for Perfect

“Vanilla heaven floated over her tongue and she forgot all her worries. Maybe tea was the answer to everything.”
― Helena Duggan, A Place Called Perfect

“No. She’d be something smart and mysterious and strong. She’d be something magical. I know she’d be a raven.”
― Helena Duggan, The Trouble with Perfect

“There is no ‘them’ and ‘us’. We are men and women and children and husbands and wives and No-Man’s-Landers and Perfectionists. We are all these labels and we are none. We are simply people, and we fight for that simple truth.”
― Helena Duggan, The Trouble with Perfect

“People don’t just appear and disappear, Violet!”

“I know they don’t usually but they did this time. Just there.” She pointed again.”
― Helena Duggan, The Battle for Perfect

“Maybe she’s just stressed? Adults get that a lot. I think it’s like the flu, or something.”
― Helena Duggan, The Trouble with Perfect

“love”
― Helena Duggan, A Place Called Perfect

“Well, I suppose me and Tom do look alike.” Boy smiled, his face even more flushed.
Lucy relaxed and smiled now too. “I guess that’s the trouble with twins,” she added softly.”
― Helena Duggan, The Battle for Perfect

“She knew Tom was right. Magic was everywhere.”
― Helena Duggan, The Battle for Perfect

“If she had learned anything from her encounters with the Archer brothers, it was that fear controlled people and made them do stupid things. She had to take back control, she had to think straight and get out of here.”
― Helena Duggan, The Battle for Perfect

“Violet hadn’t meant to say it that way. Why didn’t she think before she spoke, like her dad always told her to?”
― Helena Duggan, The Battle for Perfect

“The skies in Town were usually clear,”
― Helena Duggan, The Trouble with Perfect

“mother”
― Helena Duggan, A Place Called Perfect

“Last year, she’d developed a tactic to combat the estate’s awful effects. She told herself the feelings weren’t real. They were only thoughts, bad thoughts that made her sad and scared, and she didn’t need to believe her bad thoughts if she didn’t want to.”
― Helena Duggan, The Trouble with Perfect

“Mam always tells me I’ve to talk about things, especially bad things. She said that if you don’t talk about the bad things, they can get stuck in your head and get much worse. Then they turn into really bad things, when they were probably not that bad at all to start with.”
― Helena Duggan, The Trouble with Perfect

“Sometimes you have to do things you don’t like, Anna, because it’s good for somebody else,”
― Helena Duggan, The Trouble with Perfect

“Just ‘cause she’s gone, doesn’t mean she was never here! Everyone’s afraid to talk about the dead.”
― Helena Duggan, The Battle for Perfect