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Life Quotes by Liane Moriarty

38 Life quotes by Liane Moriarty

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Moriarty paints life as a competition where wealth and appearances matter, yet she also shows how arbitrary and cruel fate can be. She notes that gender rules often decide who is seen as pretty, and she encourages bravery to steer one’s life in a new direction.

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“Every marriage, every family, has its mysteries.”

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“People can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes.”

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

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“Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.”

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She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

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But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.

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“None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have, and maybe should have taken.”

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“I think it’s a very brave thing to do. To start a new life in a new country.”

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“Maybe, thought Alice fearfully, the other Alice who has been living my life for the last ten years isn't very nice.”

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Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy.

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“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…

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“You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.”

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“Her goodness had limits. She could have easily gone her whole life without knowing those limits, but now she knew exactly where…

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“I don’t know how she feels about me, but I sort of like her. I mean, I’m sickened by her existence obviously,…

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“Now it was hard to remember ever feeling innocent and audacious enough to dream of a certain type of life, as if…

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“Family life, even with just one little boy, had its own familiar rhythms, and it was perfectly possible to keep right on…

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“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…

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“Sometimes your life changes so slowly and imperceptibly that you don’t notice it at all until one day you wake up and…

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“You think the world begins and ends with you and your perfect little family and your perfect little life and you think…

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“She was twenty-five before it occurred to her that she could have insulted him back, but the rule of life was that…

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“I was stunned. I'm not sure why. I think I just never expected him to be importante enough to make any significant…

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“She’d paid full price, but life was a competition and she knew non-working wives of wealthy men loved to talk about how…

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“...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,…

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“I didn't have enough other people in my life to cover the loss of this many people at once. I didn't have…

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“It seemed truly frightening that it was only by sheer chance that she had met Nick. It could so easily not have…

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“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…

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“Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.”

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“Women always reveal their deepest secrets to each other.”

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“A son is a son until he takes him a wife; a daughter is a daughter for all of her life.”

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“You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.”

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“Today would be perfect in every way. The Facebook photos wouldn't lie. So much joy. Her life had so much so joy.…

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“but the rule of life was that the boys got to decide which girls were pretty; it didn’t really matter how ugly…

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It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life…

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“Wherever she went, whatever she did, part of her mind was always imagining a hypothetical life running parallel to her actual one,”

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She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder…

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I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same…

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“No, this was not an excruciating story to laugh over with Julia. Its very awkwardness and awfulness made it somehow essentially human.…

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“Grace quite likes the fact that you can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you’re wrong,…

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“The weather wasn’t helping. It was far too lovely, mocking her pain.”

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“Why weren’t they just overcome with joy every time they looked at those kids? Why in the world were they divorcing?”

“(Why did she think tall people couldn’t be crazy? Because they looked like they ruled the world?”