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Liane Moriarty Quotes | Quotes said by Liane Moriarty

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #1

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


  • Liane Moriarty Quote #2

    And even though I adore the fact that Francesca has Ben's eyes, I also see now that her biological connection to us is irrelevant. She is her own little person. She is Francesca. If we weren't her natural parents, we would still have loved her just as much.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #3

    As seductive as it might have been to erase the grief and pain of the last ten years, it was also a lie. Young Alice was a fool. A sweet, innocent fool. Young Alice hadn't experienced ten years of living.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #4

    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 Quote #5

    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!

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #6

    És como uma almofada preferida. Tenho de te levar para todo o lado.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #7

    Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #8

    Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #9

    Great. Now Renata would have even more reason to dislike her. Jane would have an enemy. The last time she had had anything close to an enemy, she was in primary school herself. It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #10

    Helicopter parents. Before I started at Pirriwee Public, I thought it was an exaggeration, this thing about parents being overly involved with their kids. I mean, my mum and dad loved me, they were, like, interested in me when I was growing up in the nineties, but they weren't, like, obsessed with me.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #11

    I didn't have enough other people in my life to cover the loss of this many people at once. I didn't have spare aunties or cousins or grandparents. I didn't have backup. I didn't have insurance to cover a loss like this.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #12

    I remember thinking about how mothers were prepared to run into burning buildings to save their children's lives. I thought I should be able to go through a bit more suffering, a bit more inconvenience to give my children life. It made me feel noble. But now I realize I'm a crazy woman running into a burning house for children who don't exist.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #13

    If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck. They followed the rules, and the rules had been proven to work. Celeste must therefore not be following the rules. And you could never prove it to them! They would die smug in their beds.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #14

    In those years when their mother disappeared into herself, and old Mrs Jeffrey next door turned into Frannie, their honorary grandmother, Alice also taught herself how to change light bulbs, fix running toilets and cook chops and veggies while Elisabeth learned how to demand refunds, pay bills, fill in forms and talk to strangers.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #15

    It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip off 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; because how could you watch someone floss one minute, and the next minute share your deepest passion or tritest of 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.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #16

    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.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #17

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

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #18

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

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #19

    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.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #20

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

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #21

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

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #22

    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.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #23

    So now I just assume that it won't work, and that if it does work, I'll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn't, because somehow the hope sneakily finds its way in. I'm never aware of the hope until it's gone, whooshed away like a rug pulled from under my feet, each time I hear another I'm sorry.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #24

    Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #25

    Sometimes they purposely asked people over just to give themselves the incentive to clean up in a frantic rush before they arrived.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #26

    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.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #27

    There was something pathetic about the rejected wife bravely pulling herself together, joining a tennis club, doing a photography course, cutting her hair, venturing timidly back out onto the single scene.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #28

    They both went to opposite sides of the bed, snapped on their bedside lamps and pulled back the cover in a smooth, practiced, synchronized move that proved, depending on Madeline's mood, that they either had the perfect marriage or that they were stuck in a middle-class suburban rut and they needed to sell the house and go traveling around India.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #29

    They lost Olivia at Newport Beach. The panic made Alice hyperventilate. You were meant to be watching her, Nick kept saying. As if that were the point. That Alice had made a mistake. Not that Olivia was missing, but that it was Alice's fault.

  • Liane Moriarty Quote #30

    They would think she was savoring the taste (blueberries, cinnamon, cream-excellent), but she was actually savoring the whole morning, trying to catch it, pin it down, keep it safe before all those precious moments became yet another memory.

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