Mary

“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

“it was possible this was their first Delaney Christmas ever with just the six of them, because growing up they’d always had the two grandmothers at Christmas lunch, gently lobbing passive-aggressive compliments back and forth across the table.”
― 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

“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