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Big Little Lies

The #1 New York Times bestseller that Entertainment Weekly called “a surefire hit.” NOW A GOLDEN GLOBE AND EMMY-WINNING HBO LIMITED SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, A

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Characters

Liane Moriarty (22)

“All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?”

— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com

Tagged: Conflict, Feelings, Hurting

“When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.”

— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Easy Love, Relationships

“It drove her to distraction the way women wanted to bond over self-hatred.”

— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com

Tagged: Self Hate, Bonding, hating

“Did she love him as much as she hated him? Did she hate him as much as she loved him?”

— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Hate, Relationships

“Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces. Their busy little bottoms strutting into the school in their tight gym gear. Ponytails swinging. Eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms of their hands like compasses.”

— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com

Tagged: Mother's, daughters, Family, mother's love

“Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else. Oh, it was a funny world.”

— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com

Tagged: Wealth, beauty, Quote of the Moment

“All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?”

— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com

Tagged: Conflict, Violence, Justice, Why people are such dicks, Quote of the Moment

“Mothers took their mothering so seriously now.”

— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com

Tagged: Parenting, Moms

“Stick with the nice boys... bad boys don't bring you coffee in bed, I'll tell you that for free.”

— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com

Tagged: bad boys, nice boys, generous, Coffee

“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.com

Tagged: Eye Contact, Communication, pressure

“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.com

Tagged: beauty, Shame, inferior

“When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.”

— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Lies, dishonest

“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.com

Tagged: Facebook, Happiness, Social Media

“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.com

Tagged: Kissing, first kiss, Honesty

“If she packaged the perfect Facebook life, maybe she would start to believe it herself.”

— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com

Tagged: 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.com

Tagged: Children, Sex, Social Media, Drugs

“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.com

Tagged: rich, beauty, pretending

“Those we love don’t go away, they sit beside us every day.”

— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Dating, Relationships

“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.com

Tagged: Self-Worth, Women, beauty

“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.com

Tagged: beauty, Men, Women, Shame