Quotes from Liane Moriarty

Each memory, good and bad, was another invisible thread that bound them together...It was as simple and complicated as that. Love after children, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best...-well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.

It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.

You could try as hard as you could to imagine someone else's tragedy—drowning in icy waters, living in a city split by a wall—but nothing truly hurts until it happens to you. Most of all, to your child.

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.

Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

women are like the Olympic athletes of grudges.

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.

All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.

She'd swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything.

Sometimes your life changes so slowly and imperceptibly that you don't notice it at all until one day you wake up and think, 'How did I get here?' But other times, life changes in an instant with a lightning stroke of good or bad luck with glorious or tragic consequences.

A son is a son until he takes him a wife; a daughter is a daughter for all of her life.

None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have, and maybe should have taken.

He could find hatred in his heart for her, too, if he went looking for it. The secret of a happy marriage was not to go looking for it.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

Children did this. They sensed when there was something controversial or sensitive and they pushed and pushed like tiny prosecutors.

Everyone had another sort of life up their sleeve that might have made them happy.

So now I just assume that it won't work, and that if it does work, I'll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn't, because somehow the hope sneakily finds its way in. I'm never aware of the hope until it's gone, whooshed away like a rug pulled from under my feet, each time I hear another "I'm sorry.

When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.

But every time she tried yoga she found herself silently chanting her own mantra: I'm so boooored, I'm so boooored.

Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland.

Bonnie and her mum are both members of Amnesty International," said Abigail. "Of course they are," murmured Madeline. This must be how Jennifer Aniston feels, thought Madeline, whenever she hears about Angelina and Brad adopting another orphan or two.

Little kids, little problems. Wait till you've got drugs and sex and social media to worry about.

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.