Liane Moriarty
It's about making a choice to make your marriage a priority, to, kind of, put that at the top of the page, as your mission statement or something.
— Liane Moriarty
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
It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip off 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. Furthermore, it was almost embarrassing to be truly intimate with your spouse; because how could you watch someone floss one minute, and the next minute share your deepest passion or tritest of fears? Furthermore, it was almost easier to talk about that sort of thing before you’d shared a bathroom and a bank account and argued over the packing of the dishwasher.
— Liane Moriarty
It was strange, because she always felt that she hid herself from Erika, that she was more 'herself' with her 'true' friends, where the friendship flowed in an ordinary, uncomplicated, grown-up fashion (emails, phone calls, drinks, dinners, banter and jokes that everyone got), but right now it felt like none of those friends knew her the raw, ugly, childish, basic way that Erika did.
— Liane Moriarty
Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times.
— Liane Moriarty
Life was all about consequences
— Liane Moriarty
Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces... Ponytails swinging. Eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms of their hands like compasses.
— Liane Moriarty
Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.
— Liane Moriarty
Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.
— Liane Moriarty
One of the multitudes of exboyfriends had been a country music fan and left Gemma with an unfortunate passion for Tammy Lynette. It was like, Cat thought, he’d given her herpes.
— Liane Moriarty
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