“But each time she didn’t leave, she gave him tacit permission to do it again. She knew this. She was an educated… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little. — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Wherever she went, whatever she did, part of her mind was always imagining a hypothetical life running parallel to her actual one,” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“control here, Rachel, with all the –’ She gestured sorrowfully at the paperwork, of which she knew nothing.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Her goodness had limits. She could have easily gone her whole life without knowing those limits, but now she knew exactly where… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“The problem was that every item on her list was so nebulous. Impossible to pin down. She remembered the days when her… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“She wondered if it was similar to how people felt when they first took antidepressants and they lost their pain, but everything… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Ever since she’d been living alone, she’d gone to bed with the television on; the comforting banality of the murmuring voices and… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“There was something pathetic about the rejected wife bravely pulling herself together, joining a tennis club, doing a photography course, cutting her… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“She couldn’t shake the feeling that if she didn’t record this moment on her phone then it wasn’t really happening, it didn’t… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“help” screamed silently in her head, as if she were begging for something: a solution, a cure, a reprieve. A reprieve from… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“As Jane looked around her, she felt that dissatisfied feeling she often experienced when she was somewhere new and lovely. She couldn't… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“And once the waves passed, there would still be the love. It was an entirely different feeling from the uncomplicated, unstinting adoration… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“I used to secretly watch Nick listening to Alice when she told a story; that tender, proud look he got on his… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“The weather wasn’t helping. It was far too lovely, mocking her pain.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
