“I think it’s a very brave thing to do. To start a new life in a new country.” — 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
“You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.” — 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
“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
But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums. — 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
“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
“Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.” — 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
