Perfect Little World Quotes

“I'm not trying to be rude," he said, so effortlessly rude that he didn't have to try.”
― Kevin Wilson, Perfect Little World

“I love you, Izzy," he said. Izzy did not like this phrase and was both upset and weakened to hear it from Hal. Her family did not say things like this and she had worked so hard to believe that it was something that she did not need. She did not value love nearly as much as she valued kindness, not knowing if they were the same thing.”
― Kevin Wilson

“By God, it's not enough just to build something. You have to give people a reason to stay.”
― Kevin Wilson

“But it was a mistake. Even if it worked out, she had made a mistake joining this project. The strangeness of it, and the way everyone worked so hard to pretend that it was perfectly normal, was going to change Izzy in ways that she would not recover from.
But Izzy was used to making mistakes. She was used to living inside it. The key, she knew, was to bend and shape and worry the mistake until it turned into something else, something that would allow her to survive.”
― Kevin Wilson