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141 " There is no special protection when you cross that invisible line from your ordinary life to that parallel world where tragedies happen. It happens just like this. You don’t become someone else. You’re still exactly the same. Everything around you still smells and looks and feels exactly the same. "
― Liane Moriarty , Truly Madly Guilty
142 " The suffragettes didn't starve themselves for the vote, so that you girls could starve yourselves for a man. "
― Liane Moriarty , The Hypnotist's Love Story
143 " As she drove the familiar route to the school, she considered her magnificent new age. Forty. She could still feel "forty" the way it felt when she was fifteen. Such a colorless age. Marooned in the middle of your life. Nothing would matter all that much when you were forty. You wouldn't have real feelings when you were forty, because you'd be safely cushioned by your frumpy forty-ness.Forty-year-old woman found dead. Oh dear.Twenty-year-old woman found dead. Tragedy! Sadness! Find that murderer! "
― Liane Moriarty , Big Little Lies
144 " Men often used that phrase: “drop some weight.” They said it without shame or emotion, as if the weight were an object they could easily put down when they chose. Women said they needed to “lose weight,” with their eyes down, as if the extra weight was part of them, a terrible sin they’d committed. "
― Liane Moriarty , Nine Perfect Strangers
145 " Once you’ve hit a ball there’s no point watching to see where it’s going. You can’t change its flight path now. You have to think about your next move. Not what you should have done. What you do now. "
― Liane Moriarty , Apples Never Fall
146 " Sometimes a girl has to stop waiting around and come up with her own fairytale ending. "
― Liane Moriarty , The Last Anniversary
147 " Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions. "
― Liane Moriarty , The Husband's Secret
148 " No one could be expected to give up wine and books at the same time. "
149 " Women and their bodies! The most abusive and toxic of relationships. "
150 " 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. "
151 " That was the irony: Her mother loved things so much that she had nothing. "
152 " The lowest point of your life can lead to the highest. "
153 " You are a woman in the prime of your life! You should march into a room with your head held high! Like you are walking onto a stage, a battlefield! "
154 " The only woman who deserved a philandering husband was a philandering wife. "
155 " It was interesting that fury and fear could look so much the same. "
156 " she was remembering what it was like when you broke up with someone. Conversations became so hopelessly tangled. You had to be polite and precise. You couldn’t safely criticize anymore, because you didn’t have the right. You’d lost your immunity. "
― Liane Moriarty , What Alice Forgot
157 " Finally she stopped resisting and called a truce. Young Alice was allowed to stay as long as she didn't eat too much chocolate. "
158 " When you were young you talked about ‘falling in love’ with such amusing gravity, as if it were an actual recordable event, when what was it really? Chemicals. Hormones. A trick of the mind. "
159 " It was interesting how you could say things when you where walking that you might not otherwise have said with the pressure of eye contact across a table. "
160 " It was good to remember that for every horrible memory from her marriage, there was also a happy one. She wanted to see it clearly, to understand that it wasn’t all black, or all white. It was a million colors. And yes, ultimately it hadn’t worked out, but that was okay. Just because a marriage ended didn’t mean that it hadn’t been happy at times. She thought about that "