Jennah

“She had always thought that exquisitely happy time at the beginning of her relationship with Nick was the ultimate, the feeling they’d always be trying to replicate, to get back, but now she realized that was wrong. That was like comparing sparkling mineral water to French champagne. Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It’s light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But love after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you’ve hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you’ve seen the worst and the best – well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

“Once, when Nick, Alice, and Elisabeth went away for a weekend together, Elisabeth spent ages at the breakfast table studying the "nutritional information" panel on the side of a container of yogurt, warning them darkly, "You have to be really careful with yogurt." Whenever Nick and Alice ate yogurt after that, one of them would always shout, "Careful!”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

“she tried to work out who she really was without people who loved her to reflect back her personality.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

“she felt such an intense sensation of happiness it frightened her, because surely there was a price to pay for this sort of bliss.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot