Quotes from Liane Moriarty

All of a sudden she thought she had all the time in the world. Pride comes before someone trips you flat on your face.

then wandered off, probably to climb a ladder, because his sons had informed him that seventy was too old to climb ladders, so he liked to find excuses to climb them as often as possible.

nothing dramatic, in fact the opposite. It was as though a feeling of utter mundanity had settled upon them, like the start of a new season, fresh and familiar all at once. All the anger and recriminations had gone, drained away. It reminded Clementine of that feeling when you were recovering from being ill, when the symptoms were gone but you still felt light-headed and peculiar.

But the truth was, she felt deeply hurt on his behalf, and somehow responsible, as if she'd messed up.

Maybe she was sexist.

She hit the package straight on. It fell into Ben's hands. "Nice shot." He handed it to her. "Thanks," she said. "Open it," instructed Jessica, as if Zoe had been

stars were a million darting eyes on the lookout for rule-breaking in her story: sexism, ageism, racism, tokenism, ableism, plagiarism, cultural appropriation, fat-shaming, body-shaming, slut-shaming, vegetarian-shaming, real-estate-agent-shaming. The voice of the Almighty Internet boomed from the sky: Shame on you!

Mummy!" Maddie toddled back into the kitchen, an expression of perplexed delight on her face. "Look!" She held up two copies of Good Night, Little Bear. Lyn said, "Fancy that!" and Maddie plunked down onto her bottom with both books in front of her, her head turning back and forth, as she flipped each page, intent on solving this mystery.

My husband hits me, Renata. Never on the face of course. He's far too classy for that. Does yours hit you? And if he does, and this is the question that really interests me: Do you hit back? "I'm fine," she said.

While you look at the stars tonight I want you to reflect on two koans. The first one is this: Out of nowhere the mind comes forth." Masha paused. "And the second: Show me your original face, the one you had before your parents were born.

I thought we didn't say 'shut up' in our house." "Fuck off, then,

No, Mr. Khrushchev, you may not have a wall. It will not prove that communism works. It will not work out well at all. Now, look, I agree capitalism isn't the be-all and end-all! Let me show you my last credit card bill. But you really need to put your thinking cap back on.

In the United States, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends every day. Every nine seconds in the United States a woman is assaulted or beaten. Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women—more than that caused by car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined.

It was the not knowing. The not fucking knowing.

Move on. Once you've hit a ball there's no point watching to see where it's going. You can't change its flight path now. You have to think about your next move. Not what you should have done. What you do now.

It wasn't always necessary to tell your husband the whole story.

Been at a meeting then?"said the cab driver taking Erica back into the city. He grinned laterally at her in the rear-vision mirror as if it were kind of cute the way women worked these days, all dressed up in suits, almost like they were proper business people.

A woman wants to be adored but she doesn't want reverence.

For Pete's sake, the girl went back to work three months after Jacob was born. It wasn't like having a baby would be that big an inconvenience for her.

dissatisfied feeling she often experienced when

She was the missing ingredient they needed. The hint of nutmeg. Connie

The violence of her thoughts startled her and woke her up. She

It had felt like she was starting a new job: her job as a primary school mother. There would be rules and paperwork and procedures to learn.

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.