Mary

“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

“Now here they were. She couldn’t exactly say if Savannah had caught them on an upswing or a downswing, or if they’d finally found an equilibrium that would last them until death did them part. Sometimes it felt like their relationship ebbed and flowed over a day, or even a conversation. She could feel affection followed by resentment in the space of ten minutes.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

“Each time she fell out of love with him, he saw it happen and waited it out. He never stopped loving her, even those times when he felt deeply hurt and betrayed by her, even in that bad year when they talked about separating, he’d just gone along with it, waiting for her to come back to him, thanking God and his dad up above each time she did.”
― Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall