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Liane Moriarty Quotes

Total quotes: 42
“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, The Husband's Secret
Tagged: Tragedy, Pain, Suffering
“It sometimes seemed so peculiar and wrong to her that you could be that intimate with someone, to go to sleep with him and wake up with him, to do really quite extraordinarily personal things together on a regular basis, and then, suddenly, you don't even know his telephone number, or where he's living or working, or what he did today or last week or last year.”
— Liane Moriarty, The Hypnotist's Love Story
Tagged: Dating, Relationships, Love, Breaking Up, Good writing
“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, The Husband's Secret
Tagged: Relationships, long-term relationships, self-protective
“When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.”
— Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
Tagged: Love, Lies, dishonest
“A son is a son until he takes him a wife; a daughter is a daughter for all of her life.”
— Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret
Tagged: Parenting, Children, Son, Daughter
“Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.”
— Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret
Tagged: Marriage, Love, Insanity
“Perhaps nothing was ever ‘meant to be.’ There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit bendy.”
— Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret
Tagged: Meant To Be, Love, Timing, Relationships
“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, Big Little Lies
Tagged: beauty, Men, Women, Shame
“She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.”
— Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret
Tagged: Life, Excitement, Adventure
“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, Big Little Lies
Tagged: rich, beauty, pretending
“Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times.”
— Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot
Tagged: Marriage, Divorce, Happiness, Unhappy
“Little kids, little problems. Wait till you’ve got drugs and sex and social media to worry about.”
— Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
Tagged: Children, Sex, Social Media, Drugs
“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, The Husband's Secret
Tagged: Love, Falling In Love, hormones, Chemicals
“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, What Alice Forgot
Tagged: Memories, Black and White, Marriage, Divorce
“Stick with the nice boys... bad boys don't bring you coffee in bed, I'll tell you that for free.”
— Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
Tagged: bad boys, nice boys, generous, Coffee
“All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?”
— Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
Tagged: Conflict, Violence, Justice, Why people are such dicks, Quote of the Moment
“Did she love him as much as she hated him? Did she hate him as much as she loved him?”
— Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
Tagged: Love, Hate, Relationships
“Falling in love was easy. Anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky.”
— Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret
Tagged: Love, Staying In Love, Falling In Love
“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, Big Little Lies
Tagged: Self-Worth, Women, beauty
“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, What Alice Forgot
Tagged: medication, Women, hormones
“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, What Alice Forgot
Tagged: forgiveness, Mistakes, forgive
“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, Big Little Lies
Tagged: Kissing, first kiss, Honesty
“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, Big Little Lies
Tagged: Facebook, Happiness, Social Media
“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, Big Little Lies
Tagged: Eye Contact, Communication, pressure
“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, The Hypnotist's Love Story
Tagged: Love, Black and White, inelligence, stupidity
“'That doesn't sound like a school trivia night,' said Mr.s Patty Ponder to Marie Antoinette, 'That sounds like a riot.'”
— Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
Tagged: first lines of books
“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, The Husband's Secret
Tagged: Life, Mistakes, Murder
“If she packaged the perfect Facebook life, maybe she would start to believe it herself.”
— Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
Tagged: Facebook, Social Media, Deception
“Was there anything better than to be wanted? Was that all anyone really needed?”
— Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret
Tagged: wanted, affection, Attention
“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, Big Little Lies
Tagged: beauty, Shame, inferior
“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, The Last Anniversary: A Novel
Tagged: Marriage, Effort, Hard Work
“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, Three Wishes
Tagged: Life, main character, minor character
“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, The Husband's Secret
Tagged: Logic, Intimacy, Relationships
“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, What Alice Forgot
Tagged: Breakups, Criticism, Awkwardness
“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, The Husband's Secret
Tagged: Secrets, Ignoring, pretending
“You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.”
— Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty
Tagged: risks, chances, Safety
“Mothers took their mothering so seriously now.”
— Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
Tagged: Parenting, Moms
“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, What Alice Forgot
Tagged: Love, Marriage, puppy love, comparisons
“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, The Husband's Secret
Tagged: Murder, Marriage, Evil
“She did not want him, but she wanted him to want her.”
— Liane Moriarty, The Hypnotist's Love Story: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Attention, affection
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