Mary

“but her dreams didn’t have the same ferocious entitlement as Stan’s, because she was a woman, and women know that babies and husbands and sick parents can derail your dreams, at any moment they can drag you from your bed, they can forestall your career, they can lift you from your prized seat at Wimbledon from a match later described as “epic.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“Now Logan competed against Troy by not competing, which was fucking genius. You couldn’t win if only one of you was playing.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“When she looked at photos of her children when they were little, she sometimes thought, Did I notice how beautiful they were? Was I actually there? Did I just skim the surface of my entire damned life?)”
― 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