Sicily

“fucked her when she was too out of it to consent, but that was before consent got fashionable. Those kinds of incidents used to be considered “funny.” Even “hilarious.” The worse you felt, the louder you laughed. The laughter was necessary because it put you back in charge. You didn’t remember, so you created a memory you hoped was the truth.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“The world teaches men to listen only to what they want to hear and women to tell it to them.”
― Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke

“It felt like it was all still there, that time of their lives, somewhere metaphysical, accessible through some magical means other than memory.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“Each time she fell out of love with him, he saw it happen and waited it out. He never stopped loving her, even those times when he felt deeply hurt and betrayed by her, even in that bad year when they talked about separating, he’d just gone along with it, waiting for her to come back to him, thanking God and his dad up above each time she did.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall