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Liane Moriarty  Quotes
We’d traveled, we’d been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we’d slept in. We’d done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn’t want those things...

—Liane Moriarty

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BabyParenthood
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If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck. They followed the rules, and the rules had been proven to work. Celeste must therefore...

—Liane Moriarty

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JudgmentParenting
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Itsometimesseemedsopeculiarandwrongtoherthatyoucouldbethatintimatewithsomeone,togotosleepwiththemandwakeupwiththem,todoreallyquiteextraordinarilypersonalthingstogetheronaregularbasis,andthen,suddenly,youdon’tevenknowtheirtelephonenumber,orwherethey’reliving,orworking,orwhattheydidtodayorlastweekorlastyear…That’swhybreak‐upsfeltlikeyourskinwasbeingtornfromyourbody.Itwasactuallystrangethatmore peopleweren’tlikeSaskia,insteadofbeingsowell‐behavedanddignifiedaboutit.

—Liane Moriarty

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Melancholy
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We were so happy.

—Liane Moriarty

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Happiness
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Helicopter parents. Before I started at Pirriwee Public, I thought it was an exaggeration, this thing about parents being overly involved with their kids. I mean, my mum and dad loved me, they were, like,...

—Liane Moriarty

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Helicopter-ParentsParenting
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I didn’t have enough other people in my life to cover the loss of this many people at once. I didn’t have spare aunties or cousins or grandparents. I didn’t have backup. I didn’t have...

—Liane Moriarty

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DeathInsuranceLoss
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Why did they all have to tread so very delicately around Celeste’s money? It was like wealth was an embarrassing medical condition. It was the same with Celeste’s beauty. Strangers gave Celeste the same furtive...

—Liane Moriarty

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BeautySocietyWealth
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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,...

—Liane Moriarty

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FearsMarriagePride
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Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

—Liane Moriarty

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LifeSecrets
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A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate party was breathtakingly insignificant in comparison to that poor man (thirty!) crashing to...

—Liane Moriarty

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Freedom
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Polly had arrived in the world outraged to discover that her sisters had gotten there before her.

—Liane Moriarty

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ChildhoodHumorSisters
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So now I just assume that it won’t work, and that if it does work, I’ll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn’t, because somehow the hope sneakily finds its...

—Liane Moriarty

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DespairHopeInfertility
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What are you babbling on about, woman?” sighed Chloe. She’d picked this phrase up from her father and imitated his weary tone perfectly. They’d made the mistake of laughing the first time she did it,...

—Liane Moriarty

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Children
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Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland.

—Liane Moriarty

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Falling-In-LoveKissKissing
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They lost Olivia at Newport Beach. The panic made Alice hyperventilate. You were meant to be watching her, Nick kept saying. As if that were the point. That Alice had made a mistake. Not that...

—Liane Moriarty

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CriticismMarriage
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Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.

—Liane Moriarty

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MenStupidity
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És como uma almofada preferida. Tenho de te levar para todo o lado.

—Liane Moriarty

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Amor
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There was something pathetic about the rejected wife bravely pulling herself together, joining a tennis club, doing a photography course, cutting her hair, venturing timidly back out onto the single scene.

—Liane Moriarty

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Divorce
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In those years when their mother disappeared into herself, and old Mrs Jeffrey next door turned into Frannie, their honorary grandmother, Alice also taught herself how to change light bulbs, fix running toilets and cook...

—Liane Moriarty

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Depression
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Great. Now Renata would have even more reason to dislike her. Jane would have an enemy. The last time she had had anything close to an enemy, she was in primary school herself. It had...

—Liane Moriarty

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EnemiesParentsSchool
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Just because a marriage ended didn’t mean that it hadn’t been happy at times.

—Liane Moriarty

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Divorce
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As seductive as it might have been to erase the grief and pain of the last ten years, it was also a lie. Young Alice was a fool. A sweet, innocent fool. Young Alice hadn’t...

—Liane Moriarty

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Past
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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

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Mothers
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And even though I adore the fact that Francesca has Ben’s eyes, I also see now that her biological connection to us is irrelevant. She is her own little person. She is Francesca. If we...

—Liane Moriarty

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AdoptionChild
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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

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Forgiveness
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Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen Polly show more than a passing interest in strawberry jam, although now, of...

—Liane Moriarty

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

—Liane Moriarty

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ConflictHurt-Feelings
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I remember thinking about how mothers were prepared to run into burning buildings to save their children’s lives. I thought I should be able to go through a bit more suffering, a bit more inconvenience...

—Liane Moriarty

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InfertilitySuffering
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They would think she was savoring the taste (blueberries, cinnamon, cream-excellent), but she was actually savoring the whole morning, trying to catch it, pin it down, keep it safe before all those precious moments became...

—Liane Moriarty

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

—Liane Moriarty

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