Liane Moriarty Quotes

Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky

Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?

You’ve been here before. It won’t kill you. It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.

But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.

None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.

All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.

Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times.

Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.

Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy.

Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland.

Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.

They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

The medication, the hormones and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you're not allowed to be bitchy in public or people won't like you.

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.

There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the words “teeny weeny.

What if I was! That’s my point. What if I was a bit overweight and not especially pretty? Why is that so terrible? So disgusting? Why is that the end of the world?

She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!

When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once.

Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces...Ponytails swinging. Eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms of their hands like compasses.

All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?

You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.

Baths, she thought, were just like her relationships, all "ooh, ah" in the beginning and then suddenly, without warning, she had to get out, out, out!

One of the multitudes of exboyfriends had been a country music fan and left Gemma with an unfortunate passion for Tammy Wynette. It was like, Cat thought, he’d given her herpes.

It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.

You okay, Mum?" said Rob."I'm fine, " said Rachel. She went to reach for her cup of coffee and found that she didn't have the energy to even lift her arm.

It's about making a choice to make your marriage a priority, to, kind of, put that at the top of the page, as your mission statement or something.

If he could just have one more chance, he'd act like the man he'd always believed himself to be.

Why hadn't that been part of his stupid lifelong redemption program: Do what my wife asks immediately so she doesn't feel like a nag.

Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.

You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.

People can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes.

Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.

We were so happy.

Every marriage, every family, has its mysteries.

Women always reveal their deepest secrets to each other.

When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family.

She felt hot liquid anger suddenly cool and harden into something powerful and immovable.

She was busy thinking about the concept of forgiveness. It was such a lovely, generous idea when it wasn't linked to something awful that needed forgiving.

Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.

Life was all about consequences

She wanted to hug him and at the same time she kind of wanted to slap him.

When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.

Polly had arrived in the world outraged to discover that her sisters had gotten there before her.