Quotes from Liane Moriarty

Our parents are turning into vampires," Jane's brother had said to her. "Jigsaw-playing vampires.

Capitalism really had triumphed. You could buy anything from gray-colored chips the size of marbles to giant boulder-size chunks complete with spray-painted graffiti.

the world was adrift on a sea of tears

She might need to bring along an agenda. That wouldn't make her look like a type A personality at all. Not that Erika had a problem with being type A. Why would you want to be any other personality type?

This is myself. You've always had some idea of me that doesn't exist.

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow death comes.

She considered the pace of her life. The world had begun to move faster and faster over the last decade. People spoke faster, drove faster, walked faster. Everyone was in a rush. Everyone was busy. Everyone demanded their gratification instantly.

They spoke in low, intense voices, as if their conversation involved international espionage, which was incongruous in this small suburban café on a pleasant summery Saturday morning, with freshly baked banana and pear bread scenting the air and soft rock drifting languidly from the stereo to the accompaniment of the espresso machine's industrious hiss and grind.

Connie looked like a young person who had aged a great deal. She was frail, and moved slowly but impatiently, as if she was driving too slow a car. You could tell that once upon a time she'd been the sort of person who never sat still.

And then she felt it. It was like when you burn yourself on a hot plate and at first you think, Huh, that should have hurt more, and then it does hurt more, and then all of a sudden it hurts like hell.

There is something about Veronika that makes Sophie want to fold her arms tightly across her chest and say, 'You can't have any more of me.

Your child was a little stranger, constantly changing, disappearing and reintroducing himself to you. New personality traits could appear overnight.

I won't get involved in any school politics," she'd said, and someone up there had overheard and hadn't liked her attitude. Far too confident. "We'll see about that," they'd said, and then sat back and had a good old laugh at her expense.

Was Savannah another sibling? Why wasn't she here today? Was she the family outcast? The prodigal daughter? Is that why her name seemed to land between them with such portentousness? And had anyone called her?

I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.

Even the specialists didn't seem to know much more, and they were even more expensive and patronizing. But why had Joy been

fingers, with his bad eye. He was fighting the Repatriation

It was all because of the Berlin Wall. If it weren't for the Berlin Wall, Cecilia would never have found the letter, and then she wouldn't be sitting here, at the kitchen table, willing herself not to rip it open.

You do not need a recipe plan," said Masha. "You are intelligent woman. You know what to do to lose weight, if that's what you want. You are not especially fat. You are not especially thin. You want to be thinner. That is your choice. I find this not so interesting.

The more jessica changed her face and body the less secure she got.

I don't know why I stay. I don't know why I deserve this. I don't know why you do this, why we do this, why this keeps happening. "Celeste,

She'd always suspected this about herself, that right at the center of her soul was a small unbreakable stone, a cold, hard instinct for self-preservation.

She was an obsessive sort of woman, really.

At some point, Will made a choice to look at Felicity with the eyes of a single man. That was the moment he betrayed Tess.