Liane Moriarty Quotes

“Sometimes there was the pure, primal pain of grief, and other times there was anger, the frantic desire to claw and hit and kill, and sometimes, like right now, ther was just ordinary, dull sadness, settling itself softly, suffocatingly over her like a heave fog.
She was just so damned sad.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“I think it’s a very brave thing to do. To start a new life in a new country.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers

“You okay, Mum?" said Rob.
"I'm fine," said Rachel. She went to reach for her cup of coffee and found that she didn't have the energy to even lift her arm.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“Love! Pfff! I'll tell you something important. Write this down. You ready?' Yes, yes, I'm ready.' 'Love is a decision.' 'Love is a decision?' 'That's right. A decision. Not a feeling. That's what you young people don't realize. That's why you're always off divorcing each other'.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“He thought walking away was a good thing to do. A mature, manly thing to do. To disengage and give her time to calm down. He kept getting these things wrong.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers

“It’s just good manners. You don’t take your fight to a party. It’s no one else’s business.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers

“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 count, it wasn’t real life.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers

“but then one day Jessica went out to lunch with her and didn’t offer to pay the bill, and now they weren’t talking. Jessica’s heart clenched as she thought about it. She always paid the bill. Always. It was the one time she didn’t and supposedly that was unforgivable.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers

“The requests often had a passive-aggressive edge: “Ten thousand dollars is probably small change to you but it would mean a huge amount to us.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers

“And then I got married and had kids and I got totally swallowed up by this ‘Mum’ persona. We were only meant to have two, but my husband wanted a son, so we kept trying, and I ended up with four girls—and then out of the blue, my husband said he wasn’t attracted to me anymore and he left.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers

“You’ll meet someone else. You don’t need a man to complete you. Your body does not define you. You need to fall in love with you.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers

“Sometimes your life changes so slowly and imperceptibly that you don’t notice it at all until one day you wake up and think: How did I get here? But other times life changes in an instant, with a lightning stroke of good or bad luck, with glorious or tragic consequences.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers

“It was destiny, as inevitable as a fairy tale.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“,because she never seemed to settle at one address long enough to properly relocate her possessions. It was admittedly strange behaviour for a nearly forty-year-old.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“She had no idea how lonely it felt to be single.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“She wanted to tell her that you could still be lonely when you were married, that there had been times when she had woken up day after day crushed with loneliness, and still made breakfast.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“She was the worst liar in her family. She used to think it was because she was the youngest, and therefore everyone could see right through her feeble attempts at deceit thanks to their superior knowledge of how the world worked.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“But life goes on. We live to play another day.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“Gentle people snapped. People who were patient and kind in some circumstances were cruel and vicious in others.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“No regrets. Never waste time thinking about what could have been.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“I didn’t dislike him. He’s one of those people you feel like you should like . . . It just…”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall