Quotes from Liane Moriarty

I didn't properly appreciate one damned moment.

What happened never mattered all that much because he was always about to leave,

It's because a woman's entire self-worth rests on her looks,' said Jane. 'That's why. It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.' Madeline

Afterward she felt seedy and sexy and disheveled and filled with despair.

You can choose the right shot, you can have a good swing and good technique, you can do everything right, and it can still go wrong. No player, no matter how good, makes one hundred percent of their shots. Some days you lose.

The year Lyn turned twenty-two someone switched her life over to fast-forward and forgot to change it back again. That's how it felt.

matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

Oh, come on now," she said mildly, as a car suddenly pulled into the lane in front of her. She lifted her hand to toot the horn and then didn't bother. Note how I didn't scream and yell like a mad person, she thought for the benefit of that afternoon's psychotic truck driver, just in case he happened to have stopped by to read her mind.

No paradigm shift could eliminate a good strong dose of Catholic guilt.

handbag strap tangled around her chair.

Not the angry, demanding cry of a child who wants attention, or the startled cry of a child who has hurt himself. This was a grown-up type of crying: involuntary, soft, sad, weeping.

How was she going to cope for ten days without instant answers to idle questions?

If you valued your marriage, you kept a barricade around yourself and your feelings and your thoughts. You didn't let your eyes linger. You didn't stay for the second drink. You kept the flirting safe. You just didn't go there.

Unimaginable things happened every single day and there wasn't always a good reason.

You just didn't go there.

so easily have said no. But she and her husband Sam said yes, and now they can never change what they did and didn't do that

The only recognition you got for surviving a night like that came from other mothers. Only they understood the epic nature of your trivial achievements.

He sounded so certain. Whenever they had an argument about a point of fact, he was always so utterly confident that he had it right and she had it wrong. He never even entertained the possibility that he might be mistaken. It drove her bananas. She struggled with an irresistible urge to slap him across the face. This

She had forgotten this: the way your senses exploded and your pulse raced, as if you were properly awake after a long sleep. She had forgotten the thrill, the desire, the melting sensation. It just wasn't possible after ten years of marriage. Everyone knew that. It was part of the deal.

It was as if she were being picked up and put down again in each new stage of her life like a chess piece. She

I'm not going to ask you to carry this too, if you can't carry it.

We're a bit too white breed here on the peninsula. We like to think we're diverse but it's only our bank accounts that differ.

All that we are is a result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. —Buddhist quote

Carol: I blame the Erotic Book Club. But that's just me. Jonathan: There was nothing erotic about the Erotic Book Club, I'll tell you that for free.