“Children did this. They sensed when there was something controversial or sensitive and they pushed and pushed like tiny prosecutors.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“The other mothers, the teachers, the people . I didn't realize that having a child was so social. You're always talking to people.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“What sort of daughter refuses to go to her mother’s house? What sort of daughter speaks with such violence to her mother… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Little kids, little problems. Wait till you’ve got drugs and sex and social media to worry about.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“I'm sure it's innate, it's just biology, for a man to want a woman who can give him children.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Other people's problems always seemed so surmountable, and other people's children so much more biddable.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“A son is a son until he takes him a wife; a daughter is a daughter for all of her life.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“When she was a child her mother had once told her shyness was almost a form of selfishness. “You see, when you… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“I have no right to be sad about anything. No right to have therapy from expensive doctors like you for losing children… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“You could try as hard as you could to imagine someone else’s tragedy—drowning in icy waters, living in a city split by… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Do you think you were locked in a cupboard as a child?” Cecilia had asked him once (she wouldn’t have put it… — liane moriarty Copy Share Image
We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Now you can get on Facebook and read an article, '10 Ways You Are Ruining Your Child Forever.' I'm sure it's making… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
So many people have said to me that when you become a school parent, it is like going back to school yourself.… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Now every day I remember to worry that Ben will die in a car accident on his way to work. I make… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Putting that aside, did he even want another child? At all? ever? She thought he did, but now that she considered it,… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck. — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Nothing and nobody could aggravate you the way your child could aggravate you.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“It was good to remember that for every horrible memory from her marriage, there was also a happy one. She wanted to see it… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share
“When you were young you talked about "falling in love" with such amusing gravity, as if it were an actual recordable event, when what… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share
“Nathan kissed Madeline on the cheek and shook Ed's hand enthusiastically. He took an ostentatious relish in the civility of his dealings with his… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share
“The cycles of dysfunction and mental illness did not have to carry over from generation to generation. You just had to educate yourself. Erika” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share
My real thinking and planning gets done when I'm doing something else like driving or walking or taking the shower. — Liane Moriarty Copy Share
“She wondered if it was similar to how people felt when they first took antidepressants and they lost their pain, but everything else felt… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting. — Liane Moriarty Copy Share
“Recently, she’d noticed something strange happening when she talked to people in groups. She couldn’t quite remember how to be. She’d find herself thinking:… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share
“I won’t get involved in any school politics,” she’d said, and someone up there had overheard and hadn’t liked her attitude. Far too confident.… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share
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… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share
“Did you know that some people wish the Berlin Wall had never come down?” said Esther. “That’s weird, isn’t it? Why would you want… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share
“Harper: Who said it was a feminist issue? What the heck? I’ll tell you what started it: the incident at the kindergarten orientation day.… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share
“Why weren’t they just overcome with joy every time they looked at those kids? Why in the world were they divorcing?” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share
“(Why did she think tall people couldn’t be crazy? Because they looked like they ruled the world?” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share
