Top 450 Liane Moriarty Quotes (2024 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. “Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.”

— Liane Moriarty

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

— Liane Moriarty

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

— Liane Moriarty

57. “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

58. “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

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

— Liane Moriarty

60. “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

61. “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

62. “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

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

— Liane Moriarty

64. “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

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

— Liane Moriarty

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

— Liane Moriarty

67. “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

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

— Liane Moriarty

69. “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

70. “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

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 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

73. “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

74. “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

75. “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

76. “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

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

— Liane Moriarty

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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

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. “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

85. “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

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

— Liane Moriarty

87. “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

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

— Liane Moriarty

89. “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

90. “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

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

— Liane Moriarty

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

— Liane Moriarty

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

— Liane Moriarty

94. “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

95. “Renata and Harper attended the same weekly support group for parents of gifted children. Madeline imagined them all sitting in a circle, wringing their hands while their eyes shone with secret pride.”

— Liane Moriarty

96. “First kisses didn’t necessarily require darkness and alcohol, they could happen in the open air, with the sun warm on your face and everything around you honest and real and true.”

— Liane Moriarty

97. “Their arguments always went like this. The angrier Madeline got, the more freakishly calm Ed became, until he reached a point where he sounded like a hostage negotiator dealing with a lunatic and a ticking bomb. It was infuriating.”

— Liane Moriarty

98. “He’s the first person I want to tell when somebody upsets me; my foot pressing on the accelerator, desperate to get home from work just to tell him, the moment I tell him, the moment his face lights up with fury on my behalf, it’s better, it’s fixed.”

— Liane Moriarty

99. “All that we are is a result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”

— Liane Moriarty

100. “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