“sometimes you had to be brave enough to “point your life in a new direction.” — 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
“I think it’s a very brave thing to do. To start a new life in a new country.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little. — 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
“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
“You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy. — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Maybe, thought Alice fearfully, the other Alice who has been living my life for the last ten years isn't very nice.” — 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
It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life… — 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
“I was stunned. I'm not sure why. I think I just never expected him to be importante enough to make any significant… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“She’d paid full price, but life was a competition and she knew non-working wives of wealthy men loved to talk about how… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“You think the world begins and ends with you and your perfect little family and your perfect little life and you think… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“This was not the career she'd dreamed of as an ambitious seventeen-year-old, but now it was hard to remember ever feeling innocent… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your life changes so slowly and imperceptibly that you don’t notice it at all until one day you wake up and… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“No, this was not an excruciating story to laugh over with Julia. Its very awkwardness and awfulness made it somehow essentially human.… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Grace quite likes the fact that you can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you’re wrong,… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“...life would go back to being unendurable, except-and this was the worst part-she would in fact endure it, it wouldn't kill her,… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Wasn't she a good person? She felt a dim awareness of something almost shameful about the way she'd lived her life. Wasn't… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“It seemed truly frightening that it was only by sheer chance that she had met Nick. It could so easily not have… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have, and maybe should have taken.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“but the rule of life was that the boys got to decide which girls were pretty; it didn’t really matter how ugly… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Today would be perfect in every way. The Facebook photos wouldn't lie. So much joy. Her life had so much so joy.… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Family life, even with just one little boy, had its own familiar rhythms, and it was perfectly possible to keep right on… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Now it was hard to remember ever feeling innocent and audacious enough to dream of a certain type of life, as if… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums. — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“She was twenty-five before it occurred to her that she could have insulted him back, but the rule of life was that… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“I didn't have enough other people in my life to cover the loss of this many people at once. I didn't have… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how she feels about me, but I sort of like her. I mean, I’m sickened by her existence obviously,… — 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
