“Falling in love was easy. Anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Love, Staying In Love, Falling In Love
“Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Marriage, Love, Insanity
“When you were young you talked about ‘falling in love’ with such amusing gravity, as if it were an actual recordable event, when what was it really? Chemicals. Hormones. A trick of the mind.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Love, Falling In Love, hormones, Chemicals
“You think love is black and white. All women think that. And they’re wrong. Women are really intelligent except for when they’re being really stupid.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Love, Black and White, inelligence, stupidity
“Love is a decision. That’s right. A decision. Not a feeling. That’s what you young people don’t realize. That’s why you’re always off divorcing each other.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Love, Divorce, Relationships, Effort
“It was almost embarrassing to be truly intimate with your spouse; how could you watch someone floss one minute, and the next minute share your deepest passion or most ridiculous, trite little fears? It was almost easier to talk about that sort of thing before you’d shared a bathroom and a bank accou…”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: embarrassing, Marriage, arguments
“Wouldn't it be a lot less messy if everyone just stayed with the people they married in the first place?”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Marriage, Cheating, Divorce
“It wasn’t logical, but the better you knew someone, the more blurry they became. The accumulation of facts made them disappear. It was more interesting wondering if someone did or didn’t like country music than knowing one way or the other.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Logic, Intimacy, Relationships
“But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: photographs, Life, Perspective
“This was how you lived with a terrible secret. You just did it. You pretended everything was fine. You ignored the deep, cramplike pain in your stomach. You somehow anesthetized yourself so that nothing felt that bad, but nothing felt that good either.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Secrets, Ignoring, pretending
“Perhaps nothing was ever ‘meant to be.’ There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit bendy.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Meant To Be, Love, Timing, Relationships
“It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Relationships, long-term relationships, self-protective
“A woman’s entire self-worth rests on her looks. 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.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Self-Worth, Women, beauty
“She had always thought that exquisitely happy time at the beginning of her relationship with Nick was the ultimate, the feeling they'd always be trying to replicate, to get back, but now she realized that was wrong. That was like comparing sparkling mineral water to French champagne.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Love, Marriage, puppy love, comparisons
“She was busy thinking about the concept of forgiveness. It was such a lovely, generous idea when it wasn't linked to something awful that needed forgiving.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: forgiveness, Mistakes, forgive
“It was good to remember that for every horrible memory from her marriage, there was also a happy one. She wanted to see it clearly, to understand that it wasn’t all black, or all white. It was a million colors.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Memories, Black and White, Marriage, Divorce
“She was remembering what it was like when you broke up with someone. Conversations became so hopelessly tangled. You had to be polite and precise. You couldn’t safely criticize anymore, because you didn’t have the right. You’d lost your immunity.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Breakups, Criticism, Awkwardness
“They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: grudges, Bitterness, Moving On
“I mean a fat, ugly man can still be funny and lovable and successful. But it’s like it’s the most shameful thing for a woman to be.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Men, Women, Shame
“Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best--Well,…”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Love, puppy love, Marriage
“Was there anything better than to be wanted? Was that all anyone really needed?”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: wanted, affection, Attention
“First kisses didn’t necessarily require darkness and alcohol, they could happen in the open air, with the sun warm on your face and everything around you honest and real and true.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Kissing, first kiss, Honesty
“If she packaged the perfect Facebook life, maybe she would start to believe it herself.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Facebook, Social Media, Deception
“Little kids, little problems. Wait till you’ve got drugs and sex and social media to worry about.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Children, Sex, Social Media, Drugs
“She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Life, Mistakes, Murder
“The medication, the hormones, and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you're not allowed to be bitchy in public or people won't like you.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: medication, Women, hormones
“Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Marriage, Divorce, Happiness, Unhappy
“Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: rich, beauty, pretending
“You could try as hard as you could to imagine someone else’s tragedy—drowning in icy waters, living in a city split by a wall—but nothing truly hurts until it happens to you.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Tragedy, Pain, Suffering
“She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Life, Excitement, Adventure