Top 500 Liane Moriarty Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “You won’t necessarily win against fate, but you should at least put up a fight.”

— Liane Moriarty

452. “In case she can’t get what’s in her head and her heart on the canvas. Maybe she’s afraid of being afraid. That she’ll be so paralyzed by fear she won’t do a thing, she’ll just stand there with her paintbrush, feeling like a fraud.”

— Liane Moriarty

453. “On the surface they seemed loving and cheerful but she could sense dysfunction bubbling ominously beneath their sporty, matter-of-fact demeanours.”

— Liane Moriarty

454. “Many people are convinced the Big Banana was secretly replaced by a smaller version, so much so that journalists have written articles about it, but it’s not true. It just looks smaller when we visit again as grown-ups. Nothing dazzles like the first time.”

— Liane Moriarty

455. “That’s true,” she’d said, amazed and terrified by the thought. A toddler: an actual miniature person, created by them, belonging to them, separate from them.”

— Liane Moriarty

456. “Grandmothers died. It was to be expected. You weren’t even allowed to be that upset about it. Please don’t let Frannie have died. Please don’t let anyone have died. “Nobody else in our family will.”

— Liane Moriarty

457. “She believed men’s egos were as fragile as eggs.”

— Liane Moriarty

458. “Those were her last words. They were excellent last words, Mum. Well done. An hour later, she took a breath. We waited. There were no more breaths.”

— Liane Moriarty

459. “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

460. “Remember your ABC?” he’d ask, so often it got irritating. “Accept nothing. Believe nothing. Check everything,” Christina would answer.”

— Liane Moriarty

461. “She had the kind of thin bony body and hard face that speaks of addiction and the streets. There was a nearly healed cut over one eye with faint purplish bruising, and Troy tried to feel the sympathy she obviously deserved, but his heart was as hard and suspicious as an ex-girlfriend’s.”

— Liane Moriarty

462. “It’s excellent.” Lars took another sip, trying to get the full picture. Wine could fool you: all sunshine and apples and spaghetti and then nothing but sour disappointment and empty promises.”

— Liane Moriarty

463. “Feel like driving your car into the nearest telegraph pole? Therapist Dr Jeremy Hodges can steer you in a better direction. FREE bottle of anti-depressants for the first ten appointments. Or.”

— Liane Moriarty

464. “You don’t know my age, you darling idiot, so how do you know I look great for it?”

— Liane Moriarty

465. “But that’s the thing about life: both your wildest dreams and your worst nightmares can come true.”

— Liane Moriarty

466. “Negativity hid fear.”

— Liane Moriarty

467. “It was extraordinary the way her body knew how to do things – the mobile phone, the makeup, the lock – without her mind remembering her ever having done them before.”

— Liane Moriarty

468. “He just randomly, arbitrarily, idiotically broke her heart.”

— Liane Moriarty

469. “Amy once told Joy that she had no idea how lonely it felt to be single. Joy had wanted to tell her that you could still be lonely when you were married, that there had been times when she had woken up day after day crushed with loneliness, and still made breakfast for four children.”

— Liane Moriarty

470. “It’s not romantic being poor, it’s dreadful.”

— Liane Moriarty

471. “When he’s not being a psychotic monster,” said Dominick.”

— Liane Moriarty

472. “He’d forgotten how you had to up your volume when all the Delaneys were together.”

— Liane Moriarty

473. “That’s my great-granddaughter you just heard. Gets all her talent from me!” He has appropriated my family in typical Xavier fashion. They don’t seem to mind.”

— Liane Moriarty

474. “It felt pointless celebrating without other people, as if the whole objective had always been to perform the festivities for an audience.”

— Liane Moriarty

475. “The other night I dreamed I saw my parents dancing and they turned and saw me, and held out their arms. I ran to them, fast as the wind, like a child.”

— Liane Moriarty

476. “Alice had yearned to be a little disruptive, but she couldn’t work out how you got started.”

— Liane Moriarty

477. “He hated Harry for dumping his father even more than he hated him for cheating.”

— Liane Moriarty

478. “You were sad and hurt. Maybe your heart was broken, but you weren’t broken.”

— Liane Moriarty

479. “It was so fast and violent and unexpected. Like a dear friend suddenly punching you in the face. Like some cruel god had done it on purpose. To be nasty. Picked up the tree and slammed it across the Mini in a fit of temper.”

— Liane Moriarty

480. “She was getting far too used to having someone cook and clean for her. This was what it must be like to be a celebrity. No wonder they were so charismatic and cheerful on talk shows. Joy could feel herself becoming more charismatic and cheerful by the day.”

— Liane Moriarty

481. “But you could never say it all and you could never say it enough.”

— Liane Moriarty

482. “Parents do tend to judge each other. I don’t know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we’re doing?”

— Liane Moriarty

483. “She’d never wanted his gratitude, just his acknowledgment. Just once.”

— Liane Moriarty

484. “The risk of upsetting Stan outweighed the risk of upsetting Amy. The risk of upsetting Stan had always outweighed the risk of upsetting any of the children. Nearly always.”

— Liane Moriarty

485. “And of course Madison would have been smart enough to pick up on Alice’s resentment. She was already a child who felt everything far too deeply. She’d seen her mother’s friend killed in an accident and then her parents separated. No.”

— Liane Moriarty

486. “I told him I was a zero-dimensional, nonexistent point, floating in space, until I met him. Yes, I know. What an embarrassing love letter! Attempting to be poetic about geometry! A modern woman would never write such a thing. You should most definitely exist before you meet a man! You should have your own career, your own hobbies, your own thoughts, and your own financial plan!”

— Liane Moriarty

487. “One minute they were driving her home from the hospital, a tiny, wrinkled, squalling baby. The next she was all legs and cheekbones and opinions. Whoosh. It made Alice’s head spin.”

— Liane Moriarty

488. “I like worrying. I come from a long line of worriers. It’s in my blood.”

— Liane Moriarty

489. “It was strange how he’d always made her feel like they were winning as a couple, even when they were breaking up.”

— Liane Moriarty

490. “Math, by the way, is a language, I would argue a beautiful one, and it’s the only universal language there is, because it’s the same all over the world.”

— Liane Moriarty

491. “That’s what’s important these days, isn’t it. Everything should be fun and lighthearted.”

— Liane Moriarty

492. “I can’t believe they let us name a person,” Nick had said. “It feels like something only the King of the Land should be able to do.” “Or the Queen of the Kingdom,” Alice said. “Oh, they’d never let a woman name a person,” said Nick. “Obviously.”

— Liane Moriarty

493. “But how had Grant managed to establish himself as the prize?”

— Liane Moriarty

494. “Didn’t the stupid man realize that he no longer had the power to send anyone to their room?”

— Liane Moriarty

495. “If free will doesn’t exist, if all your decisions and actions are inevitable, are you still required to apologize for them?”

— Liane Moriarty

496. “They’d both apologized, and there had been no lingering bitterness. Will wasn’t a sulker. He was actually pretty good at negotiating a compromise. And he rarely lost his sense of humor or ability to laugh at himself. “Did you see the way I repacked your frying pan?” he said. “That was a masterstroke, eh? Put you in your place, didn’t it?” For a moment.”

— Liane Moriarty

497. “It made Alice sick with guilt when she thought about what they had put the children through that year. She and Nick had been so young, so full of the earth-shattering importance of their own feelings.”

— Liane Moriarty

498. “There were breakfasts when Nick was away for work. She ate her toast in bed when he was away, relishing the romantic pain of missing him, as if he were a sailor or soldier. It was like enjoying feeling hungry when you knew you’d be having a huge dinner.”

— Liane Moriarty

499. “Perhaps we all need a good thump on the head from time to time?”

— Liane Moriarty

500. “I’m only temporarily tragic, she told herself.”

— Liane Moriarty