Liane Moriarty Quotes

“Frances had struggled to explain that strangers were by definition interesting. It was their strangeness. The not-knowing. Once you knew everything there was to know about someone, you were generally ready to divorce them.”

“For him, rules were about politeness and respect and ensuring the survival of a civilized society.”

″...she was generally happy with her body as long as it wasn’t giving her pain..”

“As she swam, she silently chanted in time with her strokes: ‘I’m so happy, I’m so happy, I’m so happy, breathe, I’m so happy, I’m so happy, I’m so happy, breathe.‘”

“She understood she was no longer in her heyday, but she was still a solid, mid-level performer.”

″‘Make sure it doesn’t change us,’ he slurred, just before they fell asleep that night, and Jessica thought, ‘What are you talking about? It’s already changed us!‘”

“It was a window into another world. Into a capitalist world. It all seemed so different, so amazing, so…abundant.”

“She looked at her nine guests, all of whom now had their eyes obediently closed as they awaited her instructions. Their destinies were in her hands. She was going to change them not just temporarily, but forever.”

“She could not heal and she refused to even try.”

“You are a woman in the prime of your life! You should march into a room with your head held high! Like you are walking onto a stage, a battlefield!”

″‘Regret’ can be my memoir’s theme, she thought, as she tried to shove the cheese grater into the dishwasher next to the frying pan. A Regretful Life, by Joy Delaney.”

“The body could find balance between opposing forces. The mind could do the same.”

“There was nothing worse than having to feel sorry for people who had wronged you. You don’t want lottery wins for your enemies, but you don’t want tragedies for them either.”

“She made the right choice for the girl she was then.”

“She made the right choice for the girl she was then.”

“She found that the less she thought, the more often she found simple truths appearing right in front of her.”

“They’d been too tired to keep sharpening the edges of their hurt feeling.”

“You know that theory: if you put a frog in water and keep slowly turning up the heat, it doesn’t jump out because it doesn’t realize it’s slowly being boiled to death.”

“Once you’ve hit a ball there’s no point watching to see where it’s going. You can’t change its flight path now. You have to think about your next move. Not what you should have done. What you do now.”

“That was the secret of a happy marriage: step away from the rage.”