“ She was busy thinking about the concept of forgiveness. It was such a lovely, generous idea when it wasn't linked to something awful that needed forgiving. Liane Moriarty
“ In those years when their mother disappeared into herself, and old Mrs Jeffrey next door turned into Frannie, their honorary grandmother, Alice also taught herself how to change light bulbs, fix runni… Liane Moriarty
“ Why did they all have to tread so very delicately around Celeste's money? It was like wealth was an embarrassing medical condition. It was the same with Celeste's beauty. Strangers gave Celeste the sa… Liane Moriarty
“ What are you babbling on about, woman?" sighed Chloe. She'd picked this phrase up from her father and imitated his weary tone perfectly. They'd made the mistake of laughing the first time she did it,… Liane Moriarty
“ She felt hot liquid anger suddenly cool and harden into something powerful and immovable. Liane Moriarty
“ You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes. Liane Moriarty
“ You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely. Liane Moriarty
“ Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking. Liane Moriarty
“ Why hadn't that been part of his stupid lifelong redemption program: Do what my wife asks immediately so she doesn't feel like a nag. Liane Moriarty
“ This was historical revisionism at its best, and hadn't Sam always specialized in that, hadn't she always said she wished she had a permanent film rolling of their life so she could go back and prove… Liane Moriarty
“ He knew how the audition was going to affect their lives for the next ten weeks as she slowly lost her mind from nerves and the strain of trying to scrounge precious practice time from an already jam-… Liane Moriarty
“ It's about making a choice to make your marriage a priority, to, kind of, put that at the top of the page, as your mission statement or something. Liane Moriarty
“ You okay, Mum?" said Rob."I'm fine," said Rachel. She went to reach for her cup of coffee and found that she didn't have the energy to even lift her arm. Liane Moriarty
“ Sometimes there was the pure, primal pain of grief, and other times there was anger, the frantic desire to claw and hit and kill, and sometimes, like right now, ther was just ordinary, dull sadness, s… Liane Moriarty
“ Something snapped," said Madeline. She saw Perry's hand shining back in its graceful, practiced arc. She heard Bonnie's guttural voice. It occurred to her that there were so many levels of evil in the… Liane Moriarty
“ If someone had asked him about his dreams on the morning of the barbecue, he would have said that he didn't want for much, but he wouldn't mind a lower mortgage, a tidier house, another baby - ideally… Liane Moriarty
“ It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men. Liane Moriarty
