Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times. — 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
Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation. — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“It was why marriages fell apart. It was why, if you valued your marriage, you kept a barricade around yourself and your… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation. Connor would be asleep now, in his neat… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“How strange it all was. Wouldn't it be a lot less messy if everyone just stayed with the people they married in… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“And then I got married and had kids and I got totally swallowed up by this ‘Mum’ persona. We were only meant… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“If you valued your marriage, you kept a barricade around yourself and your feelings and your thoughts. You didn’t let your eyes… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“We should have given up years ago. It's so clear now. We should have "explored other options." We should have adopted. We… — 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… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Oh, yes, her husband was hopeless, and lost things and ran late, but he took care of his wife and daughters, in… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“But Jane had tried that with Mothers Group and failed. She just couldn’t relate to those bright, chatty women and their bubbly… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“It’s all about our egos. She felt she was on the edge of understanding something important. They could fall in love with… — 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
“It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip off down to their souls in front of their… — 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
