Quotes from Liane Moriarty

If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

Perhaps nothing was ever "meant to be." There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit "bendy." "We'll

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.

Sure it all seemed a little silly now but all the old antipathies about unfair penalties were still there just beneath the surface.

She still had no solution, no way out, but for just this moment she was sitting opposite someone who understood.

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!

His skin during the winter was the color of a weak latte. During the summer it was the color of hot chocolate.

You're always acting like you're the heroine of one of your own novels. You just fall into the arms of the next man the narrator puts in front of you." "You told me that too!" "Did I?" said Gillian. "That was impolite of me." "I always thought so," said Frances. "I could have been kinder," said Gillian. "I may have been on the spectrum.

I picked something with lots of sex, drugs and murder," Madeline had said, "so we have a lively discussion. Ideally there should be an argument." The

She realized with a shock that some of the happiest moments of her life had taken place over the last few months.

You're allowed to grieve your loss even if it's embarrassing

Tess and Felicity sat on the sidelines of life smirking at the players.

It was embarrassing just how much genuine happiness she was gaining from something so superficial.

Come on. We're not going to let her bother

Although, of course, a fat man isn't nearly as pathetic as a fat woman. Her

her grandfather used to say, "Never spoil a good story with the facts.

bored she and Stan had been until Savannah arrived on their doorstep. Savannah gave Joy and Stan something interesting and new to talk about, and she was so sweet and grateful and pretty.

His guilt slowly seeped away. His body metabolized it, like alcohol. And she colluded in his lunacy.

She could bully anyone into buying anything.

was funny how she'd always thought she had ample supplies of empathy; it turned out that to be truly empathetic she had to experience it.

If you're not asking every child in the class, you don't hand out the invitations on the playground," said Madeline. "Every mother knows that. It's a law of the land." "I could talk about this subject all day long," said Ed. "I really could. There is nothing else I want to talk about today other than Amabella's fifth-birthday party.

one day you'll turn forty and you'll slowly realize you don't feel the eyes anymore, and the freedom is a relief, but you'll also sort of miss it, and when a truck driver whistles at you while you're crossing the road, you'll think, Really? For me?

What's your husband in for? Oh, bank robbery? Really? Mine's in for murder. Yep, strangled a girl. Off to the gym after this, are you?

No, this was not an excruciating story to laugh over with Julia. Its very awkwardness and awfulness made it somehow essentially human. It was one of those rare, poignant, pure moments that encapsulated everything that was wonderful and tragic about life.