Liane Moriarty

Author

1966-11-15

Books by Liane Moriarty

Big Little Lies
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Nine perfect strangers
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The Husband's Secret
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Quotes by Liane Moriarty

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 looks they gave to people with missing limbs, and if Madeline ever mentioned Celeste's looks, Celeste responded with something like shame. Shhh, she'd say, looking around fearfully in case someone overheard. 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 old world.
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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, so she'd kept it up, and said it just often enough, and with perfect timing, so that they couldn't help but keep laughing.
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She felt hot liquid anger suddenly cool and harden into something powerful and immovable.
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You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.
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Women always reveal their deepest secrets to each other.
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People can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes.
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Every marriage, every family, has its mysteries.
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When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family.
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Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.
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Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.
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You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.
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If he could just have one more chance, he'd act like the man he'd always believed himself to be.
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This was historical revisionism at its best, and hadn't Sam always specialized in that, hadn't she always said she wished she had a permanent film rolling of their life so she could go back and prove that, yes, he did so say that thing he now denied?
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She meant that they'd never used words like separation and divorce even in their worst screaming matches. They yelled things like, You're infuriating! You don't think! You are the most annoying woman in the history of annoying women! I hate you! I hate you more! and they always, always used the word always, even though Clementine's mother had said you should never use that word in an argument with your spouse, as in, for example, You always forget to refill the water jug! (But Sam did always forget. It was accurate.)
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Why hadn't that been part of his stupid lifelong redemption program: Do what my wife asks immediately so she doesn't feel like a nag.
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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.
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He knew how the audition was going to affect their lives for the next ten weeks as she slowly lost her mind from nerves and the strain of trying to scrounge precious practice time from an already jam-packed life. No matter how much time poor Sam gave her, it would never be quite enough, because what she actually needed was for him and the kids to just temporarily not exist. She needed to slip into another dimension where she was a single, childless person. Just between now and the audition. She needed to go to a mountain chalet (somewhere with good acoustics) and live and breathe nothing but music. Go for walks. Meditate. Eat well. Do all those positive-visualization exercises young musicians did these days. She had an awful suspicion that if she were to do this in reality, she might not even miss Sam and the children that much, or if she did miss them, it would be quite bearable.
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Sometimes there was the pure, primal pain of grief, and other times there was anger, the frantic desire to claw and hit and kill, and sometimes, like right now, ther was just ordinary, dull sadness, settling itself softly, suffocatingly over her like a heave fog.She was just so damned sad.
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You okay, Mum? said Rob.I'm fine, said Rachel. She went to reach for her cup of coffee and found that she didn't have the energy to even lift her arm.
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And maybe it was more than that.Maybe it was actually an unspoken instant agreement between the four women on the balcony: No woman should pay for the accidental death of this particular man. Maybe it was an involuntary, atavistic response to thousands of years of violence against women. Maybe it was for every rape, every brutal backhanded slap, every other Perry that had come before this one.
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