“He has mistakes in his past. I have mistakes in mine. The fact that we actually are each other’s mistakes is irrelevant!”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Life, main character, minor character
“She did not want him, but she wanted him to want her.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Love, Attention, affection
“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?”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Freedom, Flirting, hit on
“Stick with the nice boys... bad boys don't bring you coffee in bed, I'll tell you that for free.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: bad boys, nice boys, generous, Coffee
“Every day is a gift, Jake. Of course sometimes it’s a really horrible gift that you don’t want.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Life, Precious, Gift
“Weren’t women allowed to be sexist for the next two thousand years or so, until they’d evened up the score?”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Women, Sexist, Men
“Dying was such an elegant way to leave a relationship. No infidelity, no boredom, no long, complicated conversations late into the night. No 'She’s still single, I hear.’ No running into each other at parties and weddings. No ‘She’s stacked on the weight’ or ‘She’s showing her age.’ Dying was final…”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Dying, Breakups, Single, Endings
“A marriage is hard work and sometimes it’s a bit of a bore. It’s like housework. It’s never finished. You’ve just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Marriage, Effort, Hard Work
“You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: risks, chances, Safety
“It was interesting how you could say things when you where walking that you might not otherwise have said with the pressure of eye contact across a table.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Eye Contact, Communication, pressure
“She wanted to be falling in love, not trying to fix a broken relationship. She wanted to be someone’s first choice, not their second.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Falling In Love, Love, Relationship
“Did one act define who you were forever? Did one evil act as a teenager counteract twenty years of marriage, of good marriage, twenty years of being a good husband and a good father? Murder and you are a murderer. That was how it worked for other people. For strangers.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Murder, Marriage, Evil
“It shouldn’t matter. She knew it shouldn’t matter. But the fact was that some people were so unacceptably, hurtfully beautiful, it made you feel ashamed. Your inferiority was right there on display for the world to see.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Shame, inferior
“It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Suffering, Crying, Tears
“When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Love, Lies, dishonest
“The words 'I'm sorry' felt like an insult. You said 'I'm sorry' when you bumped against someone's supermarket trolley. There need to be bigger words.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Apology, forgive, Sorry
“Today would be perfect in every way. The Facebook photos wouldn't lie. So much joy. Her life had so much so joy. That was an actual verifiable fact.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Facebook, Happiness, Social Media
“It seemed truly frightening that it was only by sheer chance that she had met Nick. It could so easily not have happened and then she would have had a shadowy, half-alive existence, like some sort of woodland creature who never sees sunlight, never even knowing how much she could love and how much s…”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Chance, Luck, Love
“Those we love don’t go away, they sit beside us every day.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.comTagged: Love, Dating, Relationships