“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
“You’ll meet someone else. You don’t need a man to complete you. Your body does not define you. You need to fall… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“but then one day Jessica went out to lunch with her and didn’t offer to pay the bill, and now they weren’t… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“He thought walking away was a good thing to do. A mature, manly thing to do. To disengage and give her time… — 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
“I think it’s a very brave thing to do. To start a new life in a new country.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“The requests often had a passive-aggressive edge: “Ten thousand dollars is probably small change to you but it would mean a huge… — 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
“It’s just good manners. You don’t take your fight to a party. It’s no one else’s business.” — 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
