Top 450 Liane Moriarty Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Those we love don’t go away, they sit beside us every day.”

— Liane Moriarty

2. “The lowest point of your life can lead to the highest.”

— Liane Moriarty

3. “Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.”

— Liane Moriarty

4. “You’ve been here before. It won’t kill you. It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.”

— Liane Moriarty

5. “Please release your expectations and open yourself to all possibilities.”

— Liane Moriarty

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

— Liane Moriarty

7. “You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.”

— Liane Moriarty

8. “Do not engage. Remove yourself from the emotional minefield.”

— Liane Moriarty

9. “She wanted to be falling in love, not trying to fix a broken relationship. She wanted to be someone’s first choice, not their second.”

— Liane Moriarty

10. “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

11. “You get what you get and you don’t get upset!” screamed Fred.”

— Liane Moriarty

12. “Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.”

— Liane Moriarty

13. “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

14. “None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It’s probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.”

— Liane Moriarty

15. “Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.”

— Liane Moriarty

16. “You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it Rumi.”

— Liane Moriarty

17. “There would be no point asking Sarah because she was incapable of making a decision. If Cecilia asked her if she wanted tea or coffee, she would sit for a full minute, her forehead furrowed as she agonized over the pros and cons of each beverage, before finally saying, “Coffee! No, wait, tea!” A decision like this one would give her a seizure.”

— Liane Moriarty

18. “Just because a marriage ended didn’t mean that it hadn’t been happy at times.”

— Liane Moriarty

19. “For the first time ever, she saw her mother as just a girl: a girl like her who made mistakes, who screwed things up, who was just making it.”

— Liane Moriarty

20. “Perhaps there were no answers to questions like that. Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy.”

— Liane Moriarty

21. “She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.”

— Liane Moriarty

22. “She’d never believed in God, except when she heard children singing.”

— Liane Moriarty

23. “Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

— Liane Moriarty

24. “If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.”

— Liane Moriarty

25. “Supposedly, the truth was always the best option.”

— Liane Moriarty

26. “You can choose the right shot, you can have a good swing and good technique, you can do everything right, and it can still go wrong. No player, no matter how good, makes one hundred percent of their shots. Some days you lose. They’d drummed that into the children too. You can be number one in the world, you can win and win and win but it’s inevitable: eventually you will lose.”

— Liane Moriarty

27. “You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it Rumi Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it. George Carlin.”

— Liane Moriarty

28. “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.”

— Liane Moriarty

29. “They say it’s good to let your grudges go, but I don’t know, I’m quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.”

— Liane Moriarty

30. “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

31. “Sophie has always thought that the first time you get the hysterical giggles with a new female friend is like the first time you sleep with a new boyfriend; it takes your relationship to a new more intimate level.”

— Liane Moriarty

32. “Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.”

— Liane Moriarty

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

— Liane Moriarty

34. “It’s like telling a blind person, “Oh, sure, you get to see mountains and sunsets, but there are also rubbish dumps and pollution!”

— Liane Moriarty

35. “The sound of the children singing floating down from the second floor of the building always made her weep. She’d never believed in God, except when she heard children singing.”

— Liane Moriarty

36. “Love is a decision?’ ‘That’s right. A decision. Not a feeling. That’s what you young people don’t realise. That’s why you’re always off divorcing each other.”

— Liane Moriarty

37. “Madeline traveled with ease through dozens of overlapping social circles, making both lifelong friends and lifetime enemies along the way; probably more of the latter.”

— Liane Moriarty

38. “All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think? Divorce. World wars. Legal action. Well, maybe not every legal action.”

— Liane Moriarty

39. “But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.”

— Liane Moriarty

40. “The medication, the hormones and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you’re not allowed to be bitchy in public or people won’t like you.”

— Liane Moriarty

41. “Relax and enjoy the journey. The stream will carry you this way and that, but will carry you forward to where you need to go.”

— Liane Moriarty

42. “She’d swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything.”

— Liane Moriarty

43. “Love is a decision.’ ‘Love is a decision?’ ‘That’s right. A decision. Not a feeling.”

— Liane Moriarty

44. “Did one act define who you were forever? Did one evil act as a teenager counteract twenty years of marriage, of good marriage, twenty years of being a good husband and a good father? Murder and you are a murderer. That was how it worked for other people. For strangers.”

— Liane Moriarty

45. “It’s because a woman’s entire self-worth rests on her looks,” said Jane. “That’s why. 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

46. “Sometimes a girl has to stop waiting around and come up with her own fairytale ending.”

— Liane Moriarty

47. “I’m having a nervous breakdown, she thought with relief. I’m about to lose my mind, and that’s just as well, because this cannot possibly be fixed. It is simply not fixable.”

— Liane Moriarty

48. “Stick with the nice boys... bad boys don’t bring you coffee in bed, I’ll tell you that for free.”

— Liane Moriarty

49. “The boys had always been her reason to stay, but now for the first time they were her reason to leave. She’d allowed violence to become a normal part of their life.”

— Liane Moriarty

50. “I remember how it crept up so slowly on me, like that agonizingly slow old electric blanket which used to almost imperceptibly heat up my frosty sheets, second by second, until I’d think, “Hey, I haven’t shivered in a while. Actually, I’m warm. I’m blissfully warm.” That’s how it was with Ben. I moved on from “I really shouldn’t be leading this guy on when I have no interest” to “He’s not that bad-looking really” to “I sort of enjoy being with him” to “Actually, I’m crazy about him.”

— Liane Moriarty