“Helicopter parents. Before I started at Pirriwee Public, I thought it was an exaggeration, this thing about parents being overly involved with… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“When she was a child her mother had once told her shyness was almost a form of selfishness. “You see, when you… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“What sort of daughter refuses to go to her mother’s house? What sort of daughter speaks with such violence to her mother… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions. Tess had always… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“It gave me a shock. A sudden shock of indescribable pain, like when you’re a kid, and you’re hit on the nose… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Parents do tend to judge each other. I don’t know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we’re doing? And… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces...Ponytails swinging. Eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Rachel had a feeling there might have been a story about the procurement of the macarons, but she didn’t really listen when… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Putting that aside, did he even want another child? At all? ever? She thought he did, but now that she considered it,… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Do you think you were locked in a cupboard as a child?” Cecilia had asked him once (she wouldn’t have put it… — liane moriarty Copy Share Image
Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions. — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“That was the irony: Her mother loved things so much that she had nothing. Erika” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck. — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“admit it to her dad, who would just take what she said at face value, rather than her mother, who would listen… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Her mother could always charm her, even at the worst times. Just when Erika thought she was done, that was it, she… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“In those years when their mother disappeared into herself, and old Mrs Jeffrey next door turned into Frannie, their honorary grandmother, Alice… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
'Big Little Lies' is the story of a school trivia night that goes horrifically wrong, when one parent ends up dead, possibly… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Tess is a bit shy," her mother used to tell people in an audible whisper, her hand over her mouth. "Gets it… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“When he was a kid, it used to feel like his parents disappeared when the got drunk. As the levels 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
