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101 " Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy. "
― Liane Moriarty , The Husband's Secret
102 " Nothing and nobody could aggravate you the way your child could aggravate you. "
― Liane Moriarty , Big Little Lies
103 " It’s all about our egos. She felt she was on the edge of understanding something important. They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves and reveal to each other a whole new level of otherness, a level far beyond what sort of music they liked. It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship. It was almost embarrassing to be truly intimate with your spouse; how could you watch someone floss one minute, and the next minute share your deepest passion or most ridiculous, trite little fears? It was almost easier to talk about that sort of thing before you’d shared a bathroom and a bank account and argued over the packing of the dishwasher. "
104 " Did anyone really know their child? Your child was a little stranger, constantly changing, disappearing and reintroducing himself to you. New personality traits could appear overnight. "
105 " You could try as hard as you could to imagine someone else’s tragedy—drowning in icy waters, living in a city split by a wall—but nothing truly hurts until it happens to you. Most of all, to your child. "
106 " It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself. "
107 " 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. "
108 " Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief. "
109 " She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little. "
110 " women are like the Olympic athletes of grudges. "
111 " It wasn’t logical, but the better you knew someone, the more blurry they became. The accumulation of facts made them disappear. It was more interesting wondering if someone did or didn’t like country music than knowing one way or the other. "
112 " pain "
― Liane Moriarty , The Hypnotist's Love Story
113 " Nothing is forever except change. "
― Liane Moriarty , Nine Perfect Strangers
114 " Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve. "
― Liane Moriarty , What Alice Forgot
115 " First kisses didn’t necessarily require darkness and alcohol, they could happen in the open air, with the sun warm on your face and everything around you honest and real and true. "
116 " She’d swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything. "
117 " Sometimes your life changes so slowly and imperceptibly that you don't notice it at all until one day you wake up and think, 'How did I get here?' But other times, life changes in an instant with a lightning stroke of good or bad luck with glorious or tragic consequences. "
118 " None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have, and maybe should have taken. "
119 " A son is a son until he takes him a wife; a daughter is a daughter for all of her life. "
120 " If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck. "