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161 " It was always like that. They never said sorry. They just threw down their still-loaded weapons, ready for next time. "
― Liane Moriarty , Three Wishes
162 " You never changed your appearance for men. You changed it for other women. Because they were the ones carefully tracking each others weight and skin tone along with their own. They were the ones trapped with you on the ridiculous appearance obsession merry go round that they couldn't or wouldn't get off. "
― Liane Moriarty , Nine Perfect Strangers
163 " Was there anything better than to be wanted? Was that all anyone really needed? "
― Liane Moriarty , The Husband's Secret
164 " Women and their bodies! The most abusive and toxic of relationships. Masha had seen women pinch at the flesh of their stomachs with such brutal self-loathing they left bruises. Meanwhile their husbands fondly patted their own much larger stomachs with rueful pride. "
165 " The words "I´m sorry" felt like an insult. You said "I´m sorry" when you bumped against someone´s supermarket trolley. There need to be bigger words. "
166 " Did she love him as much as she hated him? Did she hate him as much as she loved him? "
― Liane Moriarty , Big Little Lies
167 " Bonnie must give him organic blow jobs. "
168 " every relationship had its own “love account.” Doing something kind for your partner was like a deposit. A negative comment was a withdrawal. The trick was to keep your account in credit. "
169 " Nobody felt embarrassed in front of nice geeky people. That's why they were relaxing to be around. "
― Liane Moriarty , Truly Madly Guilty
170 " Shut up,” said Madeline. “I thought we didn’t say ‘shut up’ in our house.” “Fuck off, then,” said Madeline. "
171 " Stick with the nice boys, Chloe!” said Madeline after a moment. “Like Daddy. Bad boys don’t bring you coffee in bed, I’ll tell you that for free. "
172 " That's what's so embarrassing about all this. Each time I sobbed for a lost baby, it was like sobbing over the end of a relationship when I'd never even gone out with the guy. My babies weren't babies. They were just microscopic clusters of cells that weren't ever going to be anything else. they were just my own desperate hopes. Dream babies. And people have to give up on dreams. "
― Liane Moriarty , What Alice Forgot
173 " No one warned you that having children reduced you right down to some smaller, rudimentary, primitive version of yourself, where your talents and your education and your achievements meant nothing. Clementine "
174 " Relationships don’t stay the same. There isn’t time. "
175 " A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate party was breathtakingly insignificant in comparison to that poor man (thirty!) crashing to the ground for the freedom that Cecilia took for granted, but right now, she couldn’t pause to honor his memory, because a last-minute change of party theme was unacceptable. That’s what happened when you had freedom. You lost your mind over a pirate party. "
176 " A marriage is hard work and sometimes it’s a bit of a bore. It’s like housework. It’s never finished. You’ve just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day. "
― Liane Moriarty , The Last Anniversary
177 " Time went by so fast these days. There was some sort of malfunctioning going on with how fast Earth was spinning. Decades went by as quick as years once did. "
178 " It drove her to distraction the way women wanted to bond over self-hatred. "
179 " Elderly women were as tough as nails but it seemed that men got softer as they aged; their emotions caught them off guard, as if some protective barrier had been worn away by time. "
180 " Two musicians could play the same notes and sound entirely different. Intonation was everything. "