Top 450 Liane Moriarty Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Liane Moriarty

52. “Afterward, I felt it had been wrong not telling the family about the baby, because then I wanted them to know about the miscarriage, so that they knew the baby had existed. But when I told people, they seemed more interested in the fact that I’d kept the pregnancy a secret. They felt they’d been tricked. They said things like “Oh, I did wonder that day when you didn’t drink at the Easter BBQ but you said you just didn’t feel like drinking!” In other words, LIAR.”

— Liane Moriarty

53. “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

54. “Death was the hot bath you promised yourself while you endured small talk and uncomfortable shoes. You could stop pretending to have a good time when you were dead.”

— Liane Moriarty

55. “Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.”

— Liane Moriarty

56. “Don’t let your heart be a casualty of your head.”

— Liane Moriarty

57. “A third child would be like sliding down a snake in a game of Snakes and Ladders.”

— Liane Moriarty

58. “She remembered that raw sensation she’d felt after previous relationships had ended. For months afterward, it had felt like she’d lost a layer of skin. If she’d felt like that after those meaningless boys, what would she feel like after breaking with Nick? She’d been so cozy in the cocoon of their relationship. She assumed she got to stay there forever.”

— Liane Moriarty

59. “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

60. “It looked like girls were controlled by their feelings but the opposite was true. Girls had excellent control of their feelings. They spun them around like batons: Now I’m crying! Now I’m laughing! Who knows what I’ll do next! Not you! A boy’s emotions were like baseball bats that blindsided him.”

— Liane Moriarty

61. “All around her was color – rich, vibrant color. She was the only colorless thing in this whole house.”

— Liane Moriarty

62. “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

63. “She was floating, arms outspread, water lapping her body, breathing in a summery fragrance of salt and coconut.”

— Liane Moriarty

64. “Was she ever grumpy? Did she ever yell? Fall about laughing? Eat too much? Drink too much? Call out for someone to bring her toilet paper? Lose her car keys? Was she ever just a human being?”

— Liane Moriarty

65. “Oh, that feeling of hopeless grief and just wanting the pain to stop.”

— Liane Moriarty

66. “But I feel ugly, because one man said it was so, and that made it so. It’s pathetic.”

— Liane Moriarty

67. “Women and their bodies! The most abusive and toxic of relationships.”

— Liane Moriarty

68. “I’ll tell you something, something important. Write this down. You ready?’ ‘Yes, yes, I’m ready.’ ‘Love is a decision.’ ‘Love is a decision?’ ‘That’s right. A decision. Not a feeling. That’s what you young people don’t realise.”

— Liane Moriarty

69. “A well-managed breakdown can turn out to be a good thing,” he told Yao. “Try to see it as an opportunity. An opportunity to grow and learn about yourself.”

— Liane Moriarty

70. “Mum used to say that when she met my dad it was like a perfect love story. I thought Patrick was my perfect love story. Except he’s not. He’s the hypnotist’s love story. I’m the ex-girlfriend in the hypnotist’s love story. Not the heroine. I’m only a minor character.”

— Liane Moriarty

71. “All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.”

— Liane Moriarty

72. “A glittery girl. Older than Jane but definitely still glittery. All her life Jane had watched girls like that with scientific interest. Maybe a little awe. Maybe a little envy. They weren’t necessarily the prettiest, but they decorated themselves so affectionately, like Christmas trees, with dangling earrings, jangling bangles and delicate, pointless scarves. They.”

— Liane Moriarty

73. “You’re having one of those days of accumulating misery when you argue violently with someone in a position of power: a bank teller, a dry cleaner, a three-year-old.”

— Liane Moriarty

74. “Did one act define who you were forever?”

— Liane Moriarty

75. “Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else. Oh, it was a funny old world. “So, school politics, girls,” Madeline said as she carefully.”

— Liane Moriarty

76. “There had been something about the pop of the champagne cork, the naughtiness of it.”

— Liane Moriarty

77. “It didn’t take Celeste long to realize that this was going to be the sort of book club where the book was secondary to the proceedings. She felt a mild disappointment. She’d been looking forward to talking about the book. She’d even, embarrassingly, prepared for book club, like a good little lawyer, marking up a few pages with Post-it notes and writing a few pithy comments in the margins.”

— Liane Moriarty

78. “I’m prepared to wait this out. I will wait for you to finish with him.” She took a deep, shaky breath. “Have your revolting little affair and then give my husband back.”

— Liane Moriarty

79. “Ed said to Madeline, “Why don’t you have snacks in your bag? What sort of woman are you?” “This is a clutch!” Madeline.”

— Liane Moriarty

80. “She said that sometimes you had to be brave enough to “point your life in a new direction.”

— Liane Moriarty

81. “She sucked in her stomach, ready to take it like a man, or at least like a romance novelist capable of reading her own royalty statements.”

— Liane Moriarty

82. “Grumpiness was less time-consuming and tiring than cheeriness.”

— Liane Moriarty

83. “But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums. People always obediently smiled and tilted their heads when a camera was put in front of them. Perhaps seconds after the shutter clicked, she and Nick sprang apart, avoiding each other’s eyes, their smiles replaced by snarls. She.”

— Liane Moriarty

84. “This was the thing with the murky world of the Internet. You swam along through cyberspace, merrily picking up this and that, and next thing you knew you’d stumbled upon something unsavory and ugly.”

— Liane Moriarty

85. “It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?”

— Liane Moriarty

86. “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!”

— Liane Moriarty

87. “Reading a novel was like returning to a once-beloved holiday destination.”

— Liane Moriarty

88. “Every day is a gift, Jake. Of course sometimes it’s a really horrible gift that you don’t want.”

— Liane Moriarty

89. “Did anyone really know their child? Your child was a little stranger, constantly changing, disappearing and reintroducing himself to you. New personality traits could appear overnight.”

— Liane Moriarty

90. “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. She could have fallen in love with Connor. Easily. Falling in love was easy. Anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky.”

— Liane Moriarty

91. “It gave me a shock. A sudden shock of indescribable pain, like when you’re a kid, and you’re hit on the nose with a basketball on a cold morning, and you cannot believe how much it hurts, and your friends all laugh and you want your mother so bad.”

— Liane Moriarty

92. “It was interesting how a marriage instantly became public property as soon as it looked shaky.”

— Liane Moriarty

93. “Even a really bad ordinary argument, where feelings were hurt, would be so much better than this permanent sense of dread. She could feel it everywhere: in her stomach, her chest, even her mouth had a horrible taste to it. What was it doing to her health?”

— Liane Moriarty

94. “It’s easy to think the minefield wasn’t that bad once you’re safely watching other people get blown up.”

— Liane Moriarty

95. “Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It’s light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you’ve hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you’ve seen the worst and the best – well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.”

— Liane Moriarty

96. “Her name was Susi, which seemed to indicate a worrying lack of judgment. Why didn’t she call herself Susan? “Susi” sounded like a pole dancer. The other problem with Susi was that she appeared to be about twelve years old, and quite naturally, being twelve, she didn’t know how to apply eyeliner properly. It was.”

— Liane Moriarty

97. “Life was all about consequences.”

— Liane Moriarty

98. “People thought that tragedy made you wise, that it automatically elevated you to a higher, spiritual level, but it seemed to Rachel that just the opposite was true. Tragedy made you petty and spiteful. It didn’t give you any great knowledge or insight. 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

99. “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.”

— Liane Moriarty

100. “Her darling little tech-savvy, consumerist savages.”

— Liane Moriarty