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“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 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

“I was ungrateful to Providence by not being happy; and, yet, does happiness always result from the gifts of intelligence? I tend to believe the contrary: one must pay for the gift of knowledge by wishing not to know...”
― Claire de Duras, Ourika: An English Translation

“Nobody felt embarrassed in front of nice geeky people. That's why they were relaxing to be around.”
― Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty

“You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.”
― Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty