Quotes from Liane Moriarty

Did you know that some people wish the Berlin Wall had never come down?" said Esther. "That's weird, isn't it? Why would you want to be stuck behind a wall?

upset?" "Of course. Once a boy told Lyn she had two mozzie bites instead of tits and she cried for a whole week." "Really? Did she?" Kara sat up, invigorated. "I can't imagine her, young, and getting all upset.

just stop thinking about it, you can't change what you did or didn't do, what you should and shouldn't have done.

do. Madeline saw Nathan smile fiercely at the

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.

When she was a child her mother had once told her shyness was almost a form of selfishness. "You see, when you hang your head like that, darling, people think you don't like them!

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'.

He avoided confrontation. He just wanted everyone to be happy. The

She had not realized that grief was so physical.

There was something a little sad about having erotic dreams when you led such an unerotic life.

Good Lord. The first person she sees is Mick Drummond, with his ancient bobbing head. Would that man never die? Was he immortal? Was he real?

Would there be that subtle one-upmanship like there was between mothers? "It's so stressful having a gifted child." What would be the equivalent for a prison wife? "It's such a strain when your husband is a model prisoner! The others are constantly beating him up!

I think we should let them out,' said Yao. 'They were meant to be out by now.' 'We have to be ready to adapt,' said Masha. 'I told you both that at the beginning. For dramatic results, you need dramatic action. I know this is uncomfortable for them, but that's the only way people change. They have water. They have shelter. We are taking them out of their comfort zone, that's all. That's when growth occurs.

She was a woman with the strength to move mountains. She was a woman as weak as a child.

She often experienced an uneasy sense that she was somehow faking a life for him, giving him a pretend childhood.

one of the jobs of advertising was to give the consumer rational reasons for their irrational purchases.

You never changed your appearance for men, you changed it for other women, because they were the ones carefully tracking each other's weight and skin tone, along with their own, they were the ones trapped with you on the ridiculous appearance obsession merry-go-round that they couldn't or wouldn't get off.

The thing is, I hate cooking," said Joy. The words rushed out of her mouth: traitorously, venomously. "You've no idea how much I hate cooking, and it just never ends, the cooking, night after night after bloody night. Each night at five o'clock, like clockwork, your father says, 'What's for dinner?' and I grit my teeth so hard I can feel it in my jaw.

Ah the three-day blues, all new mothers cry on the third day." And I remember thinking, But my goodness, who wouldn't cry?

lately with work, and, you know, the baby thing. Obviously it would never happen again and he was very, very, very sorry and he loved her so much and God, it was such a relief to have this

Now I get it why you're so popular. You've always been adored. You expect to be adored and so you are.

Every relationship has its quixotic rules. You just had to follow them.

Back then he was thinking with his dick.

And maybe she didn't need to go ahead with the Plan after all. Maybe it was going to be OK. Maybe that clamping sensation around her head was gone.