Top 100 Liane Moriarty Quotes
#1. The medication, the hormones and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you're not allowed to be bitchy in public or people won't like you.
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#2. Nope, she didn't. So we grow up and leave home, and I hear from my mum that Madeline has married some wanker, said Ed.
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#3. The weather wasn't helping. It was far too lovely, mocking her pain.
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#4. It wasn't logical, but the better you knew someone, the more blurry they became. The accumulation of facts made them disappear. It was more interesting wondering if someone did or didn't like country music than knowing one way or the other.
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#5. It was unfortunate the way adults had to repress their true feelings.
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#6. How could she not be with someone forever when even their feet-his huge, not especially attractive feet, with their long hairy toes-felt like home?
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#8. Or maybe temporary insanity is just an excuse for inexcusable behavior.
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#9. Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.
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#10. Love is a decision?' 'That's right. A decision. Not a feeling. That's what you young people don't realise. That's why you're always off divorcing each other.
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#11. One of the jobs of advertising was to give the consumer rational reasons for their irrational purchases.
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#12. You've been here before. It won't kill you. It feels like you can't breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you'll never stop crying, but you actually will.
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#13. Connie could make her feel slow and bovine; the way she'd suddenly snap her head around and bark a question that would leave Margie fumbling for an answer.
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#14. She wished she could give Isabel a shield, like the ones riot police held, to protect her from male attention, that feeling of being scored each time you walked down a street, the demeaning comments yelled out of cars, that casual sweep of the eyes.
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#15. American readers are so polite; their reactions make it seem like I've received thousands of thank-you notes. It's just lovely, and amazing the things people tell you that have touched them and related to their own lives.
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#16. Overtired five-year-olds needed to be handled like explosive devices.
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#17. Madison rolled her eyes. "No. I won't care if people say mean things to me, because I'll be grown up. I can just say, 'Who cares? I'm going to France.' " Ah.
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#19. You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.
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#20. There was nothing wrong with the color. He'd call back the next day and say it was fine. He'd just needed to feel powerful for a few minutes. One of the younger hotshots had just made him feel inferior in a meeting.
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#21. Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.
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#22. How could she explain to Felicity that her anxiety was like a strange, mercurial little pet she was forced to look after? Sometimes it was quiet and pliable; other days it was crazy, running around in circles, yapping in her ear.
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#23. She grabbed a towel from the rail and wrapped it around him, lifting him straight out of the bath, kicking and screaming. She carried him into his bedroom and laid him with elaborate care on the bed because she was terrified she might throw him against the wall.
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#25. He owned an apricot polo shirt, and ironed it himself. Yes, he was probably gay.
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#26. Go to sleep then, safe in the financial fortress you built on a transgression and yet still it stands.
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#27. When you're in a relationship you get stuck playing out your different parts.
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#28. It would be so much easier to be aggressive if she were wearing her bra.
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#29. It drove her to distraction the way women wanted to bond over self-hatred.
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#30. Even a really bad ordinary argument, where feelings were hurt, would be so much better than this permanent sense of dread. She could feel it everywhere: in her stomach, her chest, even her mouth had a horrible taste to it. What was it doing to her health?
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#31. Cecelia turned her gaze away from the girls and looked at the shimmer blue of their kidney shaped swimming pool, with its powerful underwater light, the perfect symbol of suburban bliss, except for that strange intermit sound like a baby choking that was coming from the pool filter.
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#32. They tended to give a little start when she spoke, as if the potted plant had tried to join in the conversation.
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#33. You mustn't take any notice of her,' says Enigma. 'I often sing a little song in my head until she's finished talking.
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#34. She felt detached from all aspects of her life. She had no time anymore to feel. All that time she used to waste feeling, and analyzing her feelings, as if they were a matter of national significance.
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#35. There was a certain age, Cecilia had noticed, before people stooped or trembled, but where they didn't seem to trust their bodies in quite the same way as they once had.
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#36. They lost Olivia at Newport Beach. The panic made Alice hyperventilate. You were meant to be watching her, Nick kept saying. As if that were the point. That Alice had made a mistake. Not that Olivia was missing, but that it was Alice's fault.
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#37. My husband does say it is Australia's job and my family's job to keep me grounded. They do a very good job!
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#38. It seemed like everything he was feeling was right there in his eyes - a hint of nerves, a touch of laughter. No
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#39. If an arm-less, leg-less woman on a skateboard could find a man, surely Sophie was doing something very, very wrong? How did this woman meet him? Pull on his trouser leg as she rolled by him in a nightclub?) Now
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#40. It was interesting how you could say things when you where walking that you might not otherwise have said with the pressure of eye contact across a table.
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#41. Death was the hot bath you promised yourself while you endured small talk and uncomfortable shoes. You could stop pretending to have a good time when you were dead.
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#42. A man who despises himself so much that the only way he can alleviate his feelings of inferiority is by stomping down his wife's personality with a daily stream of nasty jibes.
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#43. But I feel ugly, because one man said it was so, and that made it so. It's pathetic.
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#44. Chloe handed a pink envelope to Madeline. "Can you keep this, Mummy? It's an invitation to Amabella's party. You have to come dressed as something starting with A. I'm going to dress up as a princess." She ran off.
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#45. Move it along, mate. A fast funeral is a good funeral. Ron is not completely sure what the word 'misogynist' means. He keeps forgetting to look it up in the dictionary because he doesn't have a dictionary.
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#46. You are awful people," she said loudly. The Blond Bobs looked up. Their eyes and mouths were little ovals of surprise. "You are awful, awful people.
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#47. First kisses didn't necessarily require darkness and alcohol, they could happen in the open air, with the sun warm on your face and everything around you honest and real and true.
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#48. She thought everyone had friends who felt like obligations.
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#49. A third child would be like sliding down a snake in a game of Snakes and Ladders.
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#50. She was remembering what it was like when you broke up with someone. Conversations became so hopelessly tangled. You had to be polite and precise. You couldn't safely criticize anymore, because you didn't have the right. You'd lost your immunity.
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#51. Actually, what that child needs, thinks Enigma, sniffing noisily, is a real good fuck.
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#52. Of course you should only be nice to nice people!" Vid looked at Dakota in the rearview mirror. "You hear that, Dakota? Don't waste your time on people who are not nice!
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#53. But Grace quite likes the fact that you can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely. It makes her feel free. Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.
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#54. I'd forgotten that the best part of dating wasn't the actual dating at all but the talking about it: the analysis of potential new boyfriends with your girlfriends.
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#55. He'd be fine. Every child went to school. They survived. They learned the rules of life.
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#56. Doing this always calmed her. It was like imagining the protective walls of an impenetrable fortress. She
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#57. She felt as though she'd been unforgivably negligent - careless! sloppy! - with the most precious, wonderful gift she'd ever received.
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#58. Parents take far too much notice of their children these days. Bring back the good old days of benign indifference, I reckon.
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#59. Parents do tend to judge each other. I don't know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we're doing? And I guess that can sometimes lead to conflict.
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#60. He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.
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#61. I can't believe they let us name a person," Nick had said. "It feels like something only the King of the Land should be able to do." "Or the Queen of the Kingdom," Alice said. "Oh, they'd never let a woman name a person," said Nick. "Obviously.
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#62. Bonnie is so 'calm,' you see. The opposite of me. She speaks in one of those soft . . . low . . . melodious voices that make you want to punch a wall.
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#63. When will it all be over? When will she have time to think and feel again? Presumably not till the baby is a teenager and can safely fend for himself. Although, of course, teenagers need to be taught to drive and say no to drugs and wear condoms.
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#64. The other mothers, the teachers, the people. I didn't realize that having a child was so social. You're always talking to people.
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#65. It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
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#66. he pays money to lift weights at the gym, so why not lift a few boxes for free? Have
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#67. She'd looked at the stubble along his jawline, and the thought had crossed her mind: He looks like Clark Kent, but maybe he's really Superman.
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#68. You look well. Do you take some sort of secret supplement?" "Caffeine?" said Tiffany.
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#69. Ah the three-day blues, all new mothers cry on the third day. And I remember thinking, But my goodness, who wouldn't cry?
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#70. Ruby is the littler one, right?" said Erika's mother in her regular voice. "How old is she? Two?" "Yes," said Clementine. "What happened? Nobody saw her fall in? Where was her mother? What was Clementine doing?
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#71. Grandmothers died. It was to be expected. You weren't even allowed to be that upset about it. Please don't let Frannie have died. Please don't let anyone have died. Nobody else in our family will
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#72. I'd be at work where poeple respected my opinions, said Nick. And then, I'd come home and it was like I was the village idiot.
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#73. It's raining, it's pouring, the old man
is snoring; went to bed and bumped his head and couldn't get up in
the morning.
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#74. She'd once been appalled to hear of women claiming PMS as a defense for murder. Now she understood. She could happily murder someone today! In fact, she felt like there should be some sort of recognition for her remarkable strength of character that she didn't.
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#75. It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.
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#76. Everyone knew that a stolen kiss was the most erotic thing in the world.
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#77. My husband hits me, Renata. Never on the face of course. He's far too classy for that. Does yours hit you?
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#78. I want gunshots and canned laughter and dog food commercials. Nothing seems too tragic when the television is blaring.
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#79. Their friends had got so old that whenever Connie bought a get-well card she also bought a sympathy card at the same time, to save herself the trouble of going back to the newsagent when they didn't 'get well'.
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#82. You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.
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#83. If you didn't suspect you had social anxiety, you wouldn't bother doing the quiz; you'd be too busy chatting with the receptionist.
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#84. Seven minutes. Her mistake could be measured in minutes. Marla was the only person who knew. Ed never knew.
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#85. About six months ago, after my fortieth, I started to feel so ... the only word I can think of is 'bland.' Or 'flat' might be a better word.
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#86. Reading a novel was like returning to a once-beloved holiday destination.
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#87. I'll tell you something, something important. Write this down. You ready?' 'Yes, yes, I'm ready.' 'Love is a decision.' 'Love is a decision?' 'That's right. A decision. Not a feeling. That's what you young people don't realise.
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#88. For someone who didn't want children, Erika had a wealth of parenting expertise she felt obliged to share. You
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#89. She would never again lie in bed on a Good Friday morning and relax in the blissful knowledge that there was nothing to do and nowhere to be, because for the rest of her life, there would always, always be something left undone. An unmade confession. An ugly secret.
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#90. On my way. Nearly there! These were their last foolish (and often misspelled) words. Madeline
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#92. Sometimes they purposely asked people over just to give themselves the incentive to clean up in a frantic rush before they arrived.
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#93. Jewelry and clothes for Isabel and Polly. A piece of the Berlin Wall for Esther.
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#94. I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I have a babysitter.
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#95. Why try to slot fractured families into neat little boxes in this day and age?
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#96. Perry was away often. He sometimes felt like an aberration in her life. A visitor. Her real life took place when he wasn't there. What happened never mattered all that much because he was always about to leave, the next day or the next week.
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#97. I was just average, I'm afraid. Too dreamy. After school,
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#98. The sky looks comfortingly mundane compared to the garish kaleidoscope of the stained glass. It makes Rose yearn to be reliving any one of a thousand ordinary days spent with her ordinary older sister, who has now done this extraordinary thing and died.
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#99. Two musicians could play the same notes and sound entirely different. Intonation was everything.
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#100. The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.
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