Mary

“She didn’t come from old money or new money but from never-quite-enough money.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“It was just a plate, her father kept saying to Christina. He never understood what that plate represented: Disrespect. Disregard. Contempt.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“Stan Delaney had always known that women had the power to draw blood with their words. It was his mother’s favorite hobby: to knife the soft, stupid, defenseless egos of her husband and her son.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“The ones referred to obliquely and the ones discussed in frank detail. She’d give the police everything they needed to convict her husband. She would say, Here is one possible motive and here is another, because any marriage of that many years has multiple motives for murder. Every police officer and hairdresser knows that.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall