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Liane Moriarty QUOTES

Liane Moriarty QUOTES

1 " We were so happy. "

― Liane Moriarty , What Alice Forgot

2 " She quite liked this aspect of her personality, the way her mood could change from melancholy to euphoric because of a breeze or a flavor or a beautiful chord progression. It meant she never had to feel too down about feeling down. "

― Liane Moriarty , Truly Madly Guilty

3 " It was strange, because she always felt that she hid herself from Erika, that she was more 'herself' with her 'true' friends, where the friendship flowed in an ordinary, uncomplicated, grown-up fashion (emails, phone calls, drinks, dinners, banter and jokes that everyone got), but right now it felt like none of those friends knew her the raw, ugly, childish, basic way that Erika did. "

― Liane Moriarty , Truly Madly Guilty

4 " Toxic' was actually an accurate description of the feelings Clementine had so often felt in Erika's presence: the intense aggravation she had to work so hard to resist and conceal, the disappointment with herself, because Erika wasn't evil or cruel or stupid, she was simply annoying, and Clementine's response to her annoyingness was so completely disporportionate, it embarassed and confounded her. Erika loved Clementine. She'd do anything for her. So why did she inflame Clementine so? It was like she was allergic to her. "

― Liane Moriarty , Truly Madly Guilty

5 " 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. "

― Liane Moriarty , Three Wishes

6 " Somehow she knew there would be an unspoken truce on their unspoken battle over God knew what when they were old. They could both surrender to their innate grumpiness. It was going to be a lovely relief. "

― Liane Moriarty , Truly Madly Guilty

7 " 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. "

― Liane Moriarty , Big Little Lies

8 " If someone had asked him about his dreams on the morning of the barbecue, he would have said that he didn't want for much, but he wouldn't mind a lower mortgage, a tidier house, another baby - ideally a son, but he'd take another girl no problem at all - a big motherfucking boat if it were up for grabs, and more sex. He would have laughed about the sex. Or smiled at least. A rueful smile. Maybe the smile would have been exactly halfway between rueful and bitter. "

― Liane Moriarty , Truly Madly Guilty

9 " And maybe it was more than that.

Maybe it was actually an unspoken instant agreement between the four women on the balcony: No woman should pay for the accidental death of this particular man. Maybe it was an involuntary, atavistic response to thousands of years of violence against women. Maybe it was for every rape, every brutal backhanded slap, every other Perry that had come before this one. "

― Liane Moriarty , Big Little Lies

10 " Sometimes there was the pure, primal pain of grief, and other times there was anger, the frantic desire to claw and hit and kill, and sometimes, like right now, ther was just ordinary, dull sadness, settling itself softly, suffocatingly over her like a heave fog.
She was just so damned sad. "

― Liane Moriarty , The Husband's Secret

11 " 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. "

― Liane Moriarty , Truly Madly Guilty

12 " He knew how the audition was going to affect their lives for the next ten weeks as she slowly lost her mind from nerves and the strain of trying to scrounge precious practice time from an already jam-packed life. No matter how much time poor Sam gave her, it would never be quite enough, because what she actually needed was for him and the kids to just temporarily not exist. She needed to slip into another dimension where she was a single, childless person. Just between now and the audition. She needed to go to a mountain chalet (somewhere with good acoustics) and live and breathe nothing but music. Go for walks. Meditate. Eat well. Do all those positive-visualization exercises young musicians did these days. She had an awful suspicion that if she were to do this in reality, she might not even miss Sam and the children that much, or if she did miss them, it would be quite bearable. "

― Liane Moriarty , Truly Madly Guilty

13 " This was historical revisionism at its best, and hadn't Sam always specialized in that, hadn't she always said she wished she had a permanent film rolling of their life so she could go back and prove that, yes, he did so say that thing he now denied? "

― Liane Moriarty , Truly Madly Guilty

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

― Liane Moriarty , Truly Madly Guilty

15 " 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. "

― Liane Moriarty , The Husband's Secret

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

― Liane Moriarty , The Last Anniversary

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

― Liane Moriarty , The Last Anniversary

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

― Liane Moriarty , The Last Anniversary

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

― Liane Moriarty , The Last Anniversary

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

― Liane Moriarty , The Last Anniversary