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She felt as though she'd been unforgivably negligent - careless! sloppy! - with the most precious, wonderful gift she'd ever received. -- Liane Moriarty
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Chloe handed a pink envelope to Madeline. "Can you keep this, Mummy? It's an invitation to Amabella's party. You have to come dressed as something starting with A. I'm going to dress up as a princess." She ran off. -- Liane Moriarty
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She'd found socializing with the school mums difficult enough when her life was in perfect order. The chat, chat, chat, the swirls of laughter, the warmth, the friendliness (most mums were so very nice) and the gentle hint of bitchiness that ran beneath it all. -- Liane Moriarty
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Jewelry and clothes for Isabel and Polly. A piece of the Berlin Wall for Esther. -- Liane Moriarty
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If only she could have e-mailed or texted him, that would have solved everything, but mobile phones and the Internet were still in the future. -- Liane Moriarty
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'Big Little Lies' is the story of a school trivia night that goes horrifically wrong, when one parent ends up dead, possibly murdered. I have never attended a school trivia night where a parent ended up dead. In fact, I've never been to a school trivia night at all. -- Liane Moriarty
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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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She felt hot liquid anger suddenly cool and harden into something powerful and immovable. -- Liane Moriarty
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She wished she could give Isabel a shield, like the ones riot police held, to protect her from male attention, that feeling of being scored each time you walked down a street, the demeaning comments yelled out of cars, that casual sweep of the eyes. -- Liane Moriarty
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She would never again lie in bed on a Good Friday morning and relax in the blissful knowledge that there was nothing to do and nowhere to be, because for the rest of her life, there would always, always be something left undone. An unmade confession. An ugly secret. -- Liane Moriarty
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It was something to do with her sense of always feeling separate from everybody else, as if things that worried them couldn't possibly worry her, as if she were immune from the ordinariness of life. -- Liane Moriarty
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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
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Dear Tess, she read. This is probably a silly gift for a girl. I never did know the right thing to buy you. I was trying to think of something that would help when you're feeling lost. I remember feeling lost. It was bloody awful. But I always had you. Hope you find your way, Love Dad. -- Liane Moriarty
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Of course you should only be nice to nice people!" Vid looked at Dakota in the rearview mirror. "You hear that, Dakota? Don't waste your time on people who are not nice! -- Liane Moriarty
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there is nothing more patronizing to an Infertile than to hear a new mother complaining, -- Liane Moriarty
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There were breakfasts when Nick was away for work. She ate her toast in bed when he was away, relishing the romantic pain of missing him, as if he were a sailor or soldier. It was like enjoying feeling hungry when you knew you'd be having a huge dinner. -- Liane Moriarty
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He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light. He loved her so much, he made her seem even more lovable. -- Liane Moriarty
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It was like I woke up when he was born. It was like he had nothing to do with that night. -- Liane Moriarty
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There is no special protection when you cross that invisible line from your ordinary life to that parallel world where tragedies happen. It happens just like this. You don't become someone else. You're still exactly the same. Everything around you still smells and looks and feels exactly the same. -- Liane Moriarty
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I can't believe they let us name a person," Nick had said. "It feels like something only the King of the Land should be able to do." "Or the Queen of the Kingdom," Alice said. "Oh, they'd never let a woman name a person," said Nick. "Obviously. -- Liane Moriarty
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as their eyes met she got that feeling again, that sensation of there being something huge between them, something she couldn't quite define, something her twenty-year-old self might have called 'passion' and her thirty-year-old self might have more cynically called 'chemistry'. -- Liane Moriarty
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But Grace quite likes the fact that you can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely. It makes her feel free. Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking. -- Liane Moriarty
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How could she not be with someone who shared such a major chunk of her life? -- Liane Moriarty
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Now her voice was loud and clear. This can happen to anyone. -- Liane Moriarty
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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
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Do. Madeline saw Nathan smile fiercely at the -- Liane Moriarty
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But the truth was, she felt deeply hurt on his behalf, and somehow responsible, as if she'd messed up. -- Liane Moriarty
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He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light. -- Liane Moriarty
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We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves. -- Liane Moriarty
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I'm having a nervous breakdown, she thought with relief. I'm about to lose my mind, and that's just as well, because this cannot possibly be fixed. It is simply not fixable. -- Liane Moriarty
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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. -- Liane Moriarty
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Cecilia didn't care what the fine print said about free will and God's mysterious ways and blahdy-blah. If God had a supervisor, she would have sent off one of her famous letters of complaint a long time ago. You have lost me as a customer. -- Liane Moriarty
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Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. -- Liane Moriarty
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My real thinking and planning gets done when I'm doing something else like driving or walking or taking the shower. -- Liane Moriarty
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I'd be at work, where people respected my opinions," said Nick. "And then I'd come home and it was like I was the village idiot. I'd pack the dishwasher the wrong way. I'd pick the wrong clothes for the children. I stopped offering to help. It wasn't worth the criticism. -- Liane Moriarty
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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 experienced ten years of living. -- Liane Moriarty
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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 Olivia was missing, but that it was Alice's fault. -- Liane Moriarty
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Her goodness had limits. She could have easily gone her whole life without knowing those limits, but now she knew exactly where they lay. -- Liane Moriarty
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It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself. -- Liane Moriarty
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Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve. -- Liane Moriarty
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He made her happy and maede her laugh. She still enjoyed talking with him, watching TV with him, lying in bed with him on cold, rainy mornings. She still wanted him. -- Liane Moriarty
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There was nothing wrong with the color. He'd call back the next day and say it was fine. He'd just needed to feel powerful for a few minutes. One of the younger hotshots had just made him feel inferior in a meeting. -- Liane Moriarty
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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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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
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I'll tell you something, something important. Write this down. You ready?' 'Yes, yes, I'm ready.' 'Love is a decision.' 'Love is a decision?' 'That's right. A decision. Not a feeling. That's what you young people don't realise. -- Liane Moriarty
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Nathan was pretending to be Ed. He was pretending to be a good man, and everyone was falling for it. "Sure -- Liane Moriarty
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This was how it could be done. 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
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I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I have a babysitter. -- Liane Moriarty
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She quite liked this aspect of her personality, the way her mood could change from melancholy to euphoric because of a breeze or a flavor or a beautiful chord progression. It meant she never had to feel too down about feeling down. -- Liane Moriarty
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When she had first held Jacob in her arms and pressed her lips to his tender, fragile scalp, it had felt as though she were being brought back to life, like a wilting plant being watered. -- Liane Moriarty
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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
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I was stunned. I'm not sure why. I think I just never expected him to be importante enough to make any significant changes in his life, but of course, he doesn't know that he's only a minor character in my life. He's the star of his own life, and I'm the minor character. and fair enough too. -- Liane Moriarty
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Now it seemed like she could twist the lens on her life and see it from two entirely different perspectives. The perspective of her younger self. Her younger, sillier, innocent self. And her older, wiser, more cynical and sensible self. -- Liane Moriarty
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I married my first boyfriend. We just married too young. No children. So that broke up. There were a few relationships in between, and then I met my husband Adam when I was 37. -- Liane Moriarty
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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. -- Liane Moriarty
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She bought raffle tickets for charity, gave money to street performers, and was always sponsoring annoying friends who were running yet another marathon for some worthy cause (even though the true cause was their own fitness). -- Liane Moriarty
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He was a selfish, pompous, egocentric, nasty man. She did not want to be married to him, but she did not want him to marry someone else. She did not want him, but she wanted him to want her. -- Liane Moriarty
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Every day is a gift, Jake. Of course sometimes it's a really horrible gift that you don't want. -- Liane Moriarty
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They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet. -- Liane Moriarty
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Where was the "exit" sign? Why did they make it so difficult to get out of shopping center parking lots? You'd done your shopping - they weren't going to get any more money out of you. What was their objective here? -- Liane Moriarty
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Cecelia turned her gaze away from the girls and looked at the shimmer blue of their kidney shaped swimming pool, with its powerful underwater light, the perfect symbol of suburban bliss, except for that strange intermit sound like a baby choking that was coming from the pool filter. -- Liane Moriarty
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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. -- Liane Moriarty
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Jane, nice to meet you! I'm Amabella's mum, and I have Jackson in Year 2. That's Amabella, by the way, not Annabella. It's French. We didn't make it up. -- Liane Moriarty
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No one warned you that having children reduced you right down to some smaller, rudimentary, primitive version of yourself, where your talents and your education and your achievements meant nothing. Clementine -- Liane Moriarty
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It's raining, it's pouring, the old man
is snoring; went to bed and bumped his head and couldn't get up in
the morning. -- Liane Moriarty
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I'm prepared to wait this out. I will wait for you to finish with him." She took a deep, shaky breath. "Have your revolting little affair and then give my husband back. -- Liane Moriarty
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Connie could make her feel slow and bovine; the way she'd suddenly snap her head around and bark a question that would leave Margie fumbling for an answer. -- Liane Moriarty
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Their friends had got so old that whenever Connie bought a get-well card she also bought a sympathy card at the same time, to save herself the trouble of going back to the newsagent when they didn't 'get well'. -- Liane Moriarty
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Veronika had accused her father of being a misogynist and Thomas had told Veronika to stop acting like a pseudo lesbian intellectual. -- Liane Moriarty
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Sophie has always thought that the first time you get the hysterical giggles with a new female friend is like the first time you sleep with a new boyfriend; it takes your relationship to a new more intimate level. -- Liane Moriarty
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If her back had ever hurt like this when she was twenty she would have been hysterical, demanding painkillers and cups of tea in bed, but she has found that nobody is especially surprised to hear you're in pain when you're in your eighties. You might find it astonishing, but nobody else does. -- Liane Moriarty
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The sky looks comfortingly mundane compared to the garish kaleidoscope of the stained glass. It makes Rose yearn to be reliving any one of a thousand ordinary days spent with her ordinary older sister, who has now done this extraordinary thing and died. -- Liane Moriarty
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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. -- Liane Moriarty
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Even a really bad ordinary argument, where feelings were hurt, would be so much better than this permanent sense of dread. She could feel it everywhere: in her stomach, her chest, even her mouth had a horrible taste to it. What was it doing to her health? -- Liane Moriarty
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Copywriting probably did make me a commercial writer. Nobody wants to read advertising copy, so you have to keep it punchy; you almost have trick them into reading it. You have to make every sentence work. -- Liane Moriarty
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All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used. -- Liane Moriarty
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Apparently, moving back home was just like joining Facebook, when middle-aged boyfriends came crawling out of the woodwork like cockroaches, suggesting drinks, putting out their nasty feelers for potential affairs. -- Liane Moriarty
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Their uptight concerns about what other people thought seemed like such a waste. Why had they been so careful and contained with their love? -- Liane Moriarty
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Perhaps nothing was ever "meant to be." There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit "bendy. -- Liane Moriarty
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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
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She'd looked at the stubble along his jawline, and the thought had crossed her mind: He looks like Clark Kent, but maybe he's really Superman. -- Liane Moriarty
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No, Mr. Khrushchev, you may not have a wall. It will not prove that communism works. It will not work out well at all. Now, look, I agree capitalism isn't the be-all and end-all! Let me show you my last credit card bill. But you really need to put your thinking cap back on. -- Liane Moriarty
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She wanted to hug him and at the same time she kind of wanted to slap him. -- Liane Moriarty
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She has a strange, not unpleasant sense of disconnection from everyone, as if she is floating somewhere high above her head and operating her body by remote control. Stretch lips to smile. Fold palms of hands around pram handle. Tip head towards child in motherly fashion. -- Liane Moriarty
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It was her only real secret, so it was a pity it wasn't juicier. -- Liane Moriarty
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Death was the hot bath you promised yourself while you endured small talk and uncomfortable shoes. You could stop pretending to have a good time when you were dead. -- Liane Moriarty
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She had taken her time getting ready for tonight: a long steamy bath with a glass of wine and a Violent Femmes CD. -- Liane Moriarty
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Pandora. Zeus sends her off to marry Epimetheus, a not especially bright man she's never even met, along with a mysterious covered jar. Nobody tells Pandora a word about the jar. Nobody tells her not to open the jar. Naturally, she opens the jar. -- Liane Moriarty
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Madeline traveled with ease through dozens of overlapping social circles, making both lifelong friends and lifetime enemies along the way; probably more of the latter. -- Liane Moriarty
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She felt detached from all aspects of her life. She had no time anymore to feel. All that time she used to waste feeling, and analyzing her feelings, as if they were a matter of national significance. -- Liane Moriarty
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Nick explained that an aperitif was an pre-dinner drink. Nick came from an aperitif-drinking family. Alice came from a family with one dusty bottle of Baileys sitting hopefully in the back of the pantry with the tins of spaghetti. -- Liane Moriarty
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So many people have said to me that when you become a school parent, it is like going back to school yourself. Some of those insecurities come out and are projected through your child. -- Liane Moriarty
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Sure it all seemed a little silly now but all the old antipathies about unfair penalties were still there just beneath the surface. -- Liane Moriarty
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Ruby is the littler one, right?" said Erika's mother in her regular voice. "How old is she? Two?" "Yes," said Clementine. "What happened? Nobody saw her fall in? Where was her mother? What was Clementine doing? -- Liane Moriarty
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Parents take far too much notice of their children these days. Bring back the good old days of benign indifference, I reckon. -- Liane Moriarty
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Women always reveal their deepest secrets to each other. -- Liane Moriarty
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Excuse me?' A beaming female face swims into focus. A woman has touched her on the arm and Grace is disconcerted, as though someone on television waved at her. She feels so remote from the world, from normal people, she thought she was invisible. -- Liane Moriarty
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When he's not being a psychotic monster, said Dominick. -- Liane Moriarty
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A man who despises himself so much that the only way he can alleviate his feelings of inferiority is by stomping down his wife's personality with a daily stream of nasty jibes. -- Liane Moriarty
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It was extraordinary how tumultuous historical moments could be replayed right here in this ordinary little moment as she drove down the Pacific Highway -- Liane Moriarty
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But then she just got tired of hating him and started loving him again. It was easier. -- Liane Moriarty
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Reading a novel was like returning to a once-beloved holiday destination. -- Liane Moriarty
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it," finished Susi. "It's almost worth it." Celeste met Susi's raccoon eyes. "Yes." The blandness of Susi's gaze said nothing at all except, Got it. She wasn't being kind and maternal, and she wasn't reveling in the delicious superiority -- Liane Moriarty
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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
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Nathan kissed Madeline on the cheek and shook Ed's hand enthusiastically. He took an ostentatious relish in the civility of his dealings with his ex-wife and family. -- Liane Moriarty
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There was a certain age, Cecilia had noticed, before people stooped or trembled, but where they didn't seem to trust their bodies in quite the same way as they once had. -- Liane Moriarty
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man who designs neon signs for a living and whose most passionate interest is cars? Before I met Ben, I was one of those girls who was deliberately, prettily -- Liane Moriarty
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If an arm-less, leg-less woman on a skateboard could find a man, surely Sophie was doing something very, very wrong? How did this woman meet him? Pull on his trouser leg as she rolled by him in a nightclub?) Now -- Liane Moriarty
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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? -- Liane Moriarty
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She'd once been appalled to hear of women claiming PMS as a defense for murder. Now she understood. She could happily murder someone today! In fact, she felt like there should be some sort of recognition for her remarkable strength of character that she didn't. -- Liane Moriarty
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He's the first person I want to tell when somebody upsets me; my foot pressing on the accelerator, desperate to get home from work just to tell him, the moment I tell him, the moment his face lights up with fury on my behalf, it's better, it's fixed. -- Liane Moriarty
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I'd forgotten that the best part of dating wasn't the actual dating at all but the talking about it: the analysis of potential new boyfriends with your girlfriends. -- Liane Moriarty
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Alice would give anything, anything at all, to be lying in bed with Nick, waiting for a cup of tea. Maybe he got sick of making her cups of tea? Was that it? Had she taken him for granted? Who did she think she was, some sort of princess, lying in bed waiting for cups of tea to be delivered. -- Liane Moriarty
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every relationship had its own "love account." Doing something kind for your partner was like a deposit. A negative comment was a withdrawal. The trick was to keep your account in credit. -- Liane Moriarty
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I had bad endometriosis when I was younger, and a doctor told me I'd have a lot of trouble getting pregnant. -- Liane Moriarty
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Elderly women were as tough as nails but it seemed that men got softer as they aged; their emotions caught them off guard, as if some protective barrier had been worn away by time. -- Liane Moriarty
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Everything felt too hard,' John-Paul had said. 'Going to sleep forever just seemed like an easier option. -- Liane Moriarty
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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
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I'd be at work where poeple respected my opinions, said Nick. And then, I'd come home and it was like I was the village idiot. -- Liane Moriarty
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The middle-aged woman she would have become, so sure of herself and her place in the world, bossy and loving, condescending and impatient with her dear old mum, -- Liane Moriarty
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Ben told me that Tom had just spoken on the mobile to Alice and according to Tom she didn't say anything about falling over at the gym and she sounded "Just like Mum except maybe ten to fifteen percent grumpier than usual." I think he's learning percentages at school right now. -- Liane Moriarty
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Perry was away often. He sometimes felt like an aberration in her life. A visitor. Her real life took place when he wasn't there. What happened never mattered all that much because he was always about to leave, the next day or the next week. -- Liane Moriarty
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I understand now that desperate, clumsy desire to make people feel better - even when you know perfectly well that nothing will. -- Liane Moriarty
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There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the words teeny weeny. -- Liane Moriarty
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Nope, she didn't. So we grow up and leave home, and I hear from my mum that Madeline has married some wanker, said Ed. -- Liane Moriarty
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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 insurance to cover a loss like this. -- Liane Moriarty
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Third child in that suburban dream of his, now at the front -- Liane Moriarty
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American readers are so polite; their reactions make it seem like I've received thousands of thank-you notes. It's just lovely, and amazing the things people tell you that have touched them and related to their own lives. -- Liane Moriarty
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Maybe it wasn't that hard to be happy. -- Liane Moriarty
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Overtired five-year-olds needed to be handled like explosive devices. -- Liane Moriarty
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Her husband was a patient man, but she had noticed a glazed look on his face as she'd talked, admittedly for quite a long time, -- Liane Moriarty
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Everyone knew that a stolen kiss was the most erotic thing in the world. -- Liane Moriarty
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For Pete's sake, the girl went back to work three months after Jacob was born. It wasn't like having a baby would be that big an inconvenience for her. -- Liane Moriarty
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Her brain couldn't seem to catch up with the news. It was like the way she'd kept rolling toward Will last night in her sleep, only to find empty space where he should have been, and then waking up with a jolt. -- Liane Moriarty
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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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Two musicians could play the same notes and sound entirely different. Intonation was everything. -- Liane Moriarty
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Doing this always calmed her. It was like imagining the protective walls of an impenetrable fortress. She -- Liane Moriarty
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If you didn't suspect you had social anxiety, you wouldn't bother doing the quiz; you'd be too busy chatting with the receptionist. -- Liane Moriarty
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Oh, Lord. Tess could feel her entire personality being drained from her body. Those talkative, energetic people always left her feeling that way. -- Liane Moriarty
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The first truly autumnal day of the new season. Soft, pretty scarves looped necks, skinny jeans encased skinny and not-so-skinny thighs, spike-heeled boots tapped across the playground. -- Liane Moriarty
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Do you have an opinion on anything?" "Not really." It was true, in a way. Opinions were for other people. It was fascinating how upset they got about them. -- Liane Moriarty
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She'd been lacking in so much confidence when she was a teenager, worrying all the time about what people thought of her and how they might hurt her, without even considering the impact she might have on their feelings. -- Liane Moriarty
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It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control? -- Liane Moriarty
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Looking after the baby is like taking some sort of terrifying, never-ending practical exam. All she does is respond to what the baby is doing. Feed baby. Change baby. Wash baby. Keep baby alive. Prepare for when baby wakes again. -- Liane Moriarty
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It was always like that. They never said sorry. They just threw down their still-loaded weapons, ready for next time. -- Liane Moriarty
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For someone who didn't want children, Erika had a wealth of parenting expertise she felt obliged to share. You -- Liane Moriarty
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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
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He was too damned grateful to have her. A woman wants to be adored but she doesn't want reverence. -- Liane Moriarty
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You can still bake a perfectly good cake while losing your mind. -- Liane Moriarty
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Parents do tend to judge each other. I don't know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we're doing? And I guess that can sometimes lead to conflict. -- Liane Moriarty
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Bonnie must give him organic blow jobs. -- Liane Moriarty
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Would there be that subtle one-upmanship like there was between mothers? "It's so stressful having a gifted child." What would be the equivalent for a prison wife? "It's such a strain when your husband is a model prisoner! The others are constantly beating him up! -- Liane Moriarty
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Perhaps all grown-ups were just children carefully putting on their grown-up disguises each day and then acting accordingly. -- Liane Moriarty
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I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there. -- Liane Moriarty
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Do you think you were locked in a cupboard as a child? Cecilia had asked him once (she wouldn't have put it past his mother), but he said he was pretty sure he wasn't. -- Liane Moriarty
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the way he could walk straight into a party full of people they didn't know and stick his hand out to a stranger and say, "I'm Nick. This is my wife, Alice." It was as though he had an amazing skill, like playing a complicated musical instrument, that Alice could never hope to master. -- Liane Moriarty
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Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation. -- Liane Moriarty
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He'd be fine. Every child went to school. They survived. They learned the rules of life. -- Liane Moriarty
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She grabbed a towel from the rail and wrapped it around him, lifting him straight out of the bath, kicking and screaming. She carried him into his bedroom and laid him with elaborate care on the bed because she was terrified she might throw him against the wall. -- Liane Moriarty
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Building your dream home is a fast-track to divorce, -- Liane Moriarty
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The other mothers, the teachers, the people. I didn't realize that having a child was so social. You're always talking to people. -- Liane Moriarty
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Sometimes they purposely asked people over just to give themselves the incentive to clean up in a frantic rush before they arrived. -- Liane Moriarty
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Actually, what she remembered most about that trip to Berlin was kissing a handsome, brown-haired German boy in a nightclub. He kept taking ice cubes from his drink and running them across her collarbone, which at the time had seemed incredibly sexy, but now seemed unhygienic and sticky. -- Liane Moriarty
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That was the irony: Her mother loved things so much that she had nothing. -- Liane Moriarty
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Ellen had always assumed she would marry young and have a relationship like theirs. She thought she was that sort of person. Traditional. Nice. As if nice girls always found nice boys. As if "niceness" was all that was necessary to maintain a relationship. -- Liane Moriarty
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Finally she stopped resisting and called a truce. Young Alice was allowed to stay as long as she didn't eat too much chocolate. -- Liane Moriarty
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when she was in the bath (not too hot - so many rules). -- Liane Moriarty
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Love is a decision?' 'That's right. A decision. Not a feeling. That's what you young people don't realise. That's why you're always off divorcing each other. -- Liane Moriarty
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I didn't properly appreciate one damned moment. -- Liane Moriarty
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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. -- Liane Moriarty
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(Why did she think tall people couldn't be crazy? Because they looked like they ruled the world? -- Liane Moriarty
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I couldn't act like a normal person again when she now knows me as a crazy person, because that would imply I have a choice. That I can choose to be crazy or normal. And if I have a choice, then that would imply that I'm not really crazy at all, and I should just stop it and get on with my life. -- Liane Moriarty
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It seemed like everything he was feeling was right there in his eyes - a hint of nerves, a touch of laughter. No -- Liane Moriarty
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In their wedding photos, they both have the blank-eyed, sedated look of recent trauma victims. -- Liane Moriarty
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John-Paul did not have the requisite organizational abilities to handle bigamy. He would have slipped up long ago. Turned up at the wrong house. Called one of his wives by the wrong name. He'd be constantly leaving his possessions at the other place. -- Liane Moriarty
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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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Women are like the Olympic athletes of grudges. -- Liane Moriarty
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It was one of the best things about him; he liked to talk about people, study them, and work them out. He was interested in the complexities of relationships. -- Liane Moriarty
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The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to. -- Liane Moriarty
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I think I'm falling for a red herring here, -- Liane Moriarty
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How could she explain to Felicity that her anxiety was like a strange, mercurial little pet she was forced to look after? Sometimes it was quiet and pliable; other days it was crazy, running around in circles, yapping in her ear. -- Liane Moriarty
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When will it all be over? When will she have time to think and feel again? Presumably not till the baby is a teenager and can safely fend for himself. Although, of course, teenagers need to be taught to drive and say no to drugs and wear condoms. -- Liane Moriarty
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Or maybe temporary insanity is just an excuse for inexcusable behavior. -- Liane Moriarty
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That was the day Alice Mary Love went to the gym and carelessly misplaced a decade of her life. -- Liane Moriarty
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If anyone uses the words 'marvelous imagery' or 'narrative arc,' slap them for me. -- Liane Moriarty
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Now you can get on Facebook and read an article, '10 Ways You Are Ruining Your Child Forever.' I'm sure it's making us better parents in some ways, but in other ways, it is sending us all a little crazy. -- Liane Moriarty
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A thank-you card," repeated Alice. "Yes. I know, I know, it's teaching them good manners and everything, but I sort of hate those thank-you cards. I always imagine the kids groaning and having to be forced into writing them. It makes me feel like an elderly aunt. -- Liane Moriarty
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was nervous, when she didn't -- Liane Moriarty
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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
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Cat felt that sense of pleasure and pride that she always felt when she saw her sisters in public. "Look at them!" she wanted to say to people. "My sisters. Aren't they great? Aren't they annoying? -- Liane Moriarty
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You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall. -- Liane Moriarty
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But sometimes doing the wrong thing was also right. -- Liane Moriarty
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Connie had been far to busy having a good time, remembers Sophie. -- Liane Moriarty
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You look well. Do you take some sort of secret supplement?" "Caffeine?" said Tiffany. -- Liane Moriarty
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Lately with work, and, you know, the baby thing. Obviously it would never happen again and he was very, very, very sorry and he loved her so much and God, it was such a relief to have this -- Liane Moriarty
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He worked on it for over fifteen years before he died in his fifties of complications caused by pneumonia. -- Liane Moriarty
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Grandmothers died. It was to be expected. You weren't even allowed to be that upset about it. Please don't let Frannie have died. Please don't let anyone have died. Nobody else in our family will -- Liane Moriarty
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Move it along, mate. A fast funeral is a good funeral. Ron is not completely sure what the word 'misogynist' means. He keeps forgetting to look it up in the dictionary because he doesn't have a dictionary. -- Liane Moriarty
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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. This was what a woman was meant to look like. Exactly this. -- Liane Moriarty
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You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes. -- Liane Moriarty
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People can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes. -- Liane Moriarty
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Every marriage, every family, has its mysteries. -- Liane Moriarty
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Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told. -- Liane Moriarty
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Capitalism really had triumphed. You could buy anything from gray-colored chips the size of marbles to giant boulder-size chunks complete with spray-painted graffiti. -- Liane Moriarty
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Desolate' was the most perfectly beautiful word for how she felt. Sometimes -- Liane Moriarty
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Did one act define who you were forever? -- Liane Moriarty
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Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange. -- Liane Moriarty
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It wasn't her dream job, but she did quite enjoy the satisfaction of transforming a messy pile of paperwork into neat rows of figures. -- Liane Moriarty
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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. -- Liane Moriarty
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She had always had a slight mistrust of busy people; the sort of people who described themselves as 'Flat-out Frantic!' What was the hurry? Why didn't they just slow down? Just what exactly were they so busy doing? -- Liane Moriarty
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he pays money to lift weights at the gym, so why not lift a few boxes for free? Have -- Liane Moriarty
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But women like Tess didn't seem to have that need to share the ordinary facts of their lives, and that made Cecilia desperate to know them. -- Liane Moriarty
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I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think we're pretty much alike! -- Liane Moriarty
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Ah the three-day blues, all new mothers cry on the third day. And I remember thinking, But my goodness, who wouldn't cry? -- Liane Moriarty
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Your inferiority was right there on display for the world to see. -- Liane Moriarty
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Grace quite likes the fact that you can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely. It makes her feel free. Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking. Grace -- Liane Moriarty
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She always forgot how pain was so upsetting. Cruel. It hurt your feelings. You just wanted it to stop, please, right now. -- Liane Moriarty
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in times of crisis a person's face is somehow stripped back to something essential and universally human: all those labels like "beautiful," "sexy," "plain" became irrelevant. -- Liane Moriarty
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Somehow she knew there would be an unspoken truce on their unspoken battle over God knew what when they were old. They could both surrender to their innate grumpiness. It was going to be a lovely relief. -- Liane Moriarty
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Relationships don't stay the same. There isn't time. -- Liane Moriarty
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Did prisons have air-conditioning? Was it just primary schools that missed out? -- Liane Moriarty
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Feel like driving your car into the nearest telegraph pole? Therapist Dr Jeremy Hodges can steer you in a better direction. FREE bottle of anti-depressants for the first ten appointments. Or -- Liane Moriarty
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It's amazing how friends can slip through your fingers, how your social network can vanish like it never existed. -- Liane Moriarty
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God, I'm hungry. Have you tried the 5:2 diet? This is my fast day. I am dying of starvation. -- Liane Moriarty
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Their arguments always went like this. The angrier Madeline got, the more freakishly calm Ed became, until he reached a point where he sounded like a hostage negotiator dealing with a lunatic and a ticking bomb. It was infuriating. -- Liane Moriarty
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About six months ago, after my fortieth, I started to feel so ... the only word I can think of is 'bland.' Or 'flat' might be a better word. -- Liane Moriarty
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night's sleep!' she said. 'Every day I think, gosh you look a bit tired today, and it's just recently occurred to me that it's not that I'm tired, -- Liane Moriarty
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Every day I think, 'Gosh, you look a bit tired today,' and it's just recently occurred to me that it's not that I'm tired, it's that this is the way I look now. -- Liane Moriarty
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Ellen came out of the nursery from checking on Grace and said, "I love her so much it's just ... " "Excruciating," supplied her mother. "I know. It doesn't really get any better. You just learn to live with it. -- Liane Moriarty
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It gave me a shock. A sudden shock of indescribable pain, like when you're a kid, and you're hit on the nose with a basketball on a cold morning, and you cannot believe how much it hurts, and your friends all laugh and you want your mother so bad. -- Liane Moriarty
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She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little. -- Liane Moriarty
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Try not to saddle yourself with too distinct a personality too early in life. It might not suit you later on. -- Liane Moriarty
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Life would go back to being unendurable, except-and this was the worst part-she would in fact endure it, it wouldn't kill her, she'd keep on living day after day after day, an endless loop of glorious sunrises and sunsets that Janie never got to see. -- Liane Moriarty
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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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Jane walked into the playground feeling a strange sense of calm. Perhaps she needed to learn from Madeline's example. No more avoiding confrontation. March up to your critics and bloody well tell them what you think. -- Liane Moriarty
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Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky -- Liane Moriarty
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John-Paul?" TWO If this is a joke," said Tess, "it's not funny. -- Liane Moriarty
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When her life fell apart there hadn't been one friend whom Tess could call. Not one friend. That's why she was behaving like this with Connor. She needed a friend. -- Liane Moriarty
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As her mum always says, one of the advantages of being an only child is that you have no trouble amusing yourself. -- Liane Moriarty
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The house was literally perfect now. Instead of being thrilling, that suddenly seemed depressing. -- Liane Moriarty
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Bonnie is so 'calm,' you see. The opposite of me. She speaks in one of those soft . . . low . . . melodious voices that make you want to punch a wall. -- Liane Moriarty
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Actually, what that child needs, thinks Enigma, sniffing noisily, is a real good fuck. -- Liane Moriarty
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It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting. -- Liane Moriarty
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Yes, Ron had always respected Connie, even though he suspected the feeling was not mutual. That doesn't concern him especially. He doesn't need to be liked. A lot of people don't like him. It is their problem. Not his. -- Liane Moriarty
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Got it, by Jove! We'll build a great big bloody wall and keep the buggers in!" Presumably he hadn't -- Liane Moriarty
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Miss Barnes clearly didn't know what in the world to do. She was twenty-four years old, for heaven's sake. -- Liane Moriarty
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She accumulates stuff to insulate herself from the world, -- Liane Moriarty
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The problem was that every item on her list was so nebulous. Impossible to pin down. She remembered the days when her worries were always related to money and solutions could be calculated. To -- Liane Moriarty
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Did anyone really know their child? Your child was a little stranger, constantly changing, disappearing and reintroducing himself to you. New personality traits could appear overnight. -- Liane Moriarty
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Your child was a little stranger, constantly changing, disappearing and reintroducing himself to you. -- Liane Moriarty
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But every time she tried yoga she found herself silently chanting her own mantra: I'm so boooored, I'm so boooored. -- Liane Moriarty
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The information was like a secret weapon hidden in her pocket, which she held in the palm of her hand, caressing its contours, considering its power. -- Liane Moriarty
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How in the world had Bonnie managed to get Madeline's ex-husband out of bed at that time of morning to go to work in a homeless shelter? Nathan wouldn't get up before eight a.m. in the ten years they'd been together. Bonnie must give him organic blow jobs. "Abigail -- Liane Moriarty
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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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She'd always known she was a bit unnatural. Now it was proven. Her emotional responses were somehow never quite right. When she met Callum she thought he'd saved her, but obviously it was only temporary. -- Liane Moriarty
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Family life, even with just one little boy, had its own familiar rhythms, and it was perfectly possible to keep right on dancing like you always have, even when your mind is somewhere else. -- Liane Moriarty
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She'd never believed in God, except when she heard children singing. -- Liane Moriarty
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When you didn't let a woman help, it was a way of keeping her at a distance, of letting her know that she wasn't family, of saying I don't like you enough to let you into my kitchen. -- Liane Moriarty
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I want gunshots and canned laughter and dog food commercials. Nothing seems too tragic when the television is blaring. -- Liane Moriarty
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Even after all these years, she still said the word "gig" self-consciously, in the same way that she always said "croissant" with the proper French pronunciation, but with an apologetic, self-deprecating look to make up for her pretentiousness. -- Liane Moriarty
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She always said yes to whoever asked her out. It wouldn't have occurred to her to say no. -- Liane Moriarty
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What happened never mattered all that much because he was always about to leave, -- Liane Moriarty
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Had to run out of a cinema because the smell of the woman's perfume sitting next to me (Opium) combined with her popcorn made me retch. -- Liane Moriarty
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Her mother could always charm her, even at the worst times. Just when Erika thought she was done, that was it, she could take no more, her mother charmed her back into loving her. Her -- Liane Moriarty
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Felicity," supplied her mother. "Am I right? Yes." She lifted one elbow and thumped a crutch hard against the floor so that the first Communion photo rattled. "The little bitch. -- Liane Moriarty
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Other people's problems always seemed so surmountable, and other people's children so much more biddable. -- Liane Moriarty
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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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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 yet another memory. -- Liane Moriarty
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The gym? Alice didn't go to gyms. Had she woken up drunk in a gym? -- Liane Moriarty
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Of course they danced together; how could Callum resist dancing with a real live woman instead of a cardboard cut-out? -- Liane Moriarty
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Callum has turned down the -- Liane Moriarty
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It was like someone had cheerfully suggested she run a marathon when she'd just dragged herself out of bed after suffering from the flu. -- Liane Moriarty
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But I feel ugly, because one man said it was so, and that made it so. It's pathetic. -- Liane Moriarty
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Wherever she went, whatever she did, part of her mind was always imagining a hypothetical life running parallel to her actual one, -- Liane Moriarty
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The boys had always been her reason to stay, but now for the first time they were her reason to leave. She'd allowed violence to become a normal part of their life. -- Liane Moriarty
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The weather wasn't helping. It was far too lovely, mocking her pain. -- Liane Moriarty
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Listeria, wisteria. Ha. Funny words. She -- Liane Moriarty
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Baths, she thought, were just like her relationships, all "ooh, ah" in the beginning and then suddenly, without warning, she had to get out, out, out! -- Liane Moriarty
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A woman wants to be adored but she doesn't want reverence. Thomas -- Liane Moriarty
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You've been here before. It won't kill you. It feels like you can't breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you'll never stop crying, but you actually will. -- Liane Moriarty
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This was the thing with the murky world of the Internet. You swam along through cyberspace, merrily picking up this and that, and next thing you knew you'd stumbled upon something unsavory and ugly. -- Liane Moriarty
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On my way. Nearly there! These were their last foolish (and often misspelled) words. Madeline -- Liane Moriarty
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They tended to give a little start when she spoke, as if the potted plant had tried to join in the conversation. -- Liane Moriarty
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Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them. -- Liane Moriarty
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Was there anything better than to be wanted? Was that all anyone really needed? -- Liane Moriarty
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Breathe in. She didn't give a fig what other people thought! Breathe out. Rubbish. She gave a whole fig tree. -- Liane Moriarty
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there was the pure, primal pain of grief, and other times there was anger, the frantic desire to claw and hit and kill, and -- Liane Moriarty
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Madison rolled her eyes. "No. I won't care if people say mean things to me, because I'll be grown up. I can just say, 'Who cares? I'm going to France.' " Ah. -- Liane Moriarty
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I was just average, I'm afraid. Too dreamy. After school, -- Liane Moriarty
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She'd swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything. -- Liane Moriarty
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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
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The careful untangling of a legal issue. Like math, but with words. -- Liane Moriarty
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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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Everyone seemed to be deliberately not looking at her, the way people did when you had food in your teeth and they didn't want to tell you, so they kept trying not to see. -- Liane Moriarty
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For a moment Tess felt her strange, inappropriate happiness teeter. It was as though she were balanced on a narrow crevice surrounded by chasms of grief. One wrong thought and down she'd tumble. -- Liane Moriarty
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It was the lesser of two evils. -- Liane Moriarty
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Bleh," she said out loud. -- Liane Moriarty
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That doesn't sound like a school trivia night," said Mrs. Patty Ponder to Marie Antoinette. "That sounds like a riot." The cat didn't respond. She was dozing on the couch and found school trivia nights to be trivial. -- Liane Moriarty
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Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief. -- Liane Moriarty
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Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions. -- Liane Moriarty
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They're pretty good at building stuff," her sister said. "Like bridges and roads. I mean, could you even build a hut? Your basic mud hut?" "I could build a hut," said Cecilia. "You probably could," groaned Bridget, -- Liane Moriarty
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An attractive, elegant, slim woman. The sort of woman she never thought it was possible for her to be. She had become one of those women, those other women, who had seemed too perfectly put together to be real. -- Liane Moriarty
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Ever since she'd been living alone, she'd gone to bed with the television on; the comforting banality of the murmuring voices and flickering images warded off the feeling of terror that could sometimes overwhelm her. -- Liane Moriarty
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I remember Connie and me standing there at the hospital, looking at each other, not touching, not crying, just completely and utterly shocked. Our mother was too busy to die. -- Liane Moriarty
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People thought that tragedy made you wise, that it automatically elevated you to a higher, more spiritual level, but it seemed to Rachel that just the opposite was true. Tragedy made you petty and spiteful. It didn't give you any great knowledge or insight. -- Liane Moriarty
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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 weren't her "natural" parents, we would still have loved her just as much. -- Liane Moriarty
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How could she not be with someone forever when even their feet-his huge, not especially attractive feet, with their long hairy toes-felt like home? -- Liane Moriarty
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One of the jobs of advertising was to give the consumer rational reasons for their irrational purchases. -- Liane Moriarty
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It was unfortunate the way adults had to repress their true feelings. -- Liane Moriarty
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Debbie served them home-made Anzac biscuits. -- Liane Moriarty
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He owned an apricot polo shirt, and ironed it himself. Yes, he was probably gay. -- Liane Moriarty
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My husband hits me, Renata. Never on the face of course. He's far too classy for that. Does yours hit you? -- Liane Moriarty
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You mustn't take any notice of her,' says Enigma. 'I often sing a little song in my head until she's finished talking. -- Liane Moriarty
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My husband does say it is Australia's job and my family's job to keep me grounded. They do a very good job! -- Liane Moriarty
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Go to sleep then, safe in the financial fortress you built on a transgression and yet still it stands. -- Liane Moriarty
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You are awful people," she said loudly. The Blond Bobs looked up. Their eyes and mouths were little ovals of surprise. "You are awful, awful people. -- Liane Moriarty
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She thought everyone had friends who felt like obligations. -- Liane Moriarty
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A third child would be like sliding down a snake in a game of Snakes and Ladders. -- Liane Moriarty
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We should Google it. Don't sneer at me. -- Liane Moriarty
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Seven minutes. Her mistake could be measured in minutes. Marla was the only person who knew. Ed never knew. -- Liane Moriarty
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Why try to slot fractured families into neat little boxes in this day and age? -- Liane Moriarty
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I remember the absolute joy I used to get out of writing. The purity of imagining something and then putting it down on paper - it was such a pleasure. I read whatever I could get my hands on, from 'Great Expectations' to 'The Thorn Birds.' -- Liane Moriarty
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She wondered if she was going mad. It felt like a decision she could make. One small step over an invisible line and she could choose lunacy. -- Liane Moriarty
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You're having one of those days of accumulating misery when you argue violently with someone in a position of power: a bank teller, a dry cleaner, a three-year-old. -- Liane Moriarty
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The word 'sorry' is hardly adequate for my actions. -- Liane Moriarty
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I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same time, I'm living an ordinary life. -- Liane Moriarty
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When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once. -- Liane Moriarty
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I'm sure it's innate, it's just biology, for a man to want a woman who can give him children. -- Liane Moriarty
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She said that sometimes you had to be brave enough to point your life in a new direction. -- Liane Moriarty
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She has that euphoric feeling you get at the airport after you've checked in your luggage. Nothing can stop your journey. -- Liane Moriarty
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There had been something about the pop of the champagne cork, the naughtiness of it. -- Liane Moriarty
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It was interesting how a marriage instantly became public property as soon as it looked shaky. -- Liane Moriarty
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This Thursday night felt like adolescence: exquisitely painful and sharply beautiful. -- Liane Moriarty
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Well, anyway, she certainly was not worried that John-Paul was having an affair. Definitely not. It wasn't a possibility. Not even a remote possibility. He wouldn't have time for an affair! When would he fit it in? He did travel a bit. He could fit in an affair then. -- Liane Moriarty
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I am very efficient. -- Liane Moriarty
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When you're in a relationship you get stuck playing out your different parts. -- Liane Moriarty
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Was she ever grumpy? Did she ever yell? Fall about laughing? Eat too much? Drink too much? Call out for someone to bring her toilet paper? Lose her car keys? Was she ever just a human being? -- Liane Moriarty
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The younger man sitting next to her, her son perhaps, who looked to be in his forties, had a bar code tattooed on the back of his tanned neck, as if he were a supermarket product. -- Liane Moriarty
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Every time I ask her to explain her job, I forget to listen. Her -- Liane Moriarty
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A woman would be more intelligent, obviously. -- Liane Moriarty
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Your children see!" screamed Bonnie. Her face was ugly with rage. "We see! We fucking see! -- Liane Moriarty
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If only you were born a hundred years ago, when you could have gone through days of natural labour before bleeding naturally to death, -- Liane Moriarty
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You're like a favorite pillow. I have to pack you wherever I go. -- Liane Moriarty
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I don't know how she feels about me, but I sort of like her. I mean, I'm sickened by her existence obviously, but I find her strangely compelling. -- Liane Moriarty
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I'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. That's just the sort of dedicated writer I am. -- Liane Moriarty
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Aunt Connie killing the Munros is manifestly wrong. It was Alice. -- Liane Moriarty
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Sometimes when I'm stuck, I really do need that cup of tea, or that chocolate, or a break, or a walk, but in most cases what I actually need to do is make myself keep writing until it flows again. -- Liane Moriarty
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None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora. -- Liane Moriarty
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It's easy to think the minefield wasn't that bad once you're safely watching other people get blown up. -- Liane Moriarty
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It's because a woman's entire self-worth rests on her looks,' said Jane. '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.' Madeline -- Liane Moriarty
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Anyway, weren't women allowed to be sexist for the next two thousand years or so, until they'd evened up the score? -- Liane Moriarty
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Children did this. They sensed when there was something controversial or sensitive and they pushed and pushed like tiny prosecutors. -- Liane Moriarty
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Idiopathic Craniofacial Erythema', or 'severe facial blushing'. -- Liane Moriarty
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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. Most of all, to your child. -- Liane Moriarty
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When she was a child her mother had once told her shyness was almost a form of selfishness. You see, when you hang your head like that, darling, people think you don't like them! -- Liane Moriarty
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Each memory, good and bad, was another invisible thread that bound them together, even when they were foolishly thinking they could lead separate lives. It was as simple and complicated as that. -- Liane Moriarty
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My point is that things become weird and pointless if you examine them for too long. -- Liane Moriarty
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I can't be in the same room as you right now." She hopped out of bed, taking the iPad with her. "Be ridiculous, then," said Ed. -- Liane Moriarty
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This was not the career she'd dreamed of as an ambitious seventeen-year-old, but now it was hard to remember ever feeling innocent and audacious enough to dream of a certain type of life, as if you got to choose how things turned out. -- Liane Moriarty
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It would be so much easier to be aggressive if she were wearing her bra. -- Liane Moriarty
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You get what you get and you don't get upset! screamed Fred. -- Liane Moriarty
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How could you watch someone floss one minute, and the next minute share your deepest passion or most ridiculous, trite little fears? -- Liane Moriarty
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So why didn't you put up with it before? Why didn't you turn yourself in before I even knew you? -- Liane Moriarty
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A son is a son until he takes him a wife; a daughter is a daughter for all of her life. -- Liane Moriarty
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It's like telling a blind person, "Oh, sure, you get to see mountains and sunsets, but there are also rubbish dumps and pollution! -- Liane Moriarty
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She felt such an intense sensation of happiness it frightened her, because surely there was a price to pay for this sort of bliss. -- Liane Moriarty
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I never believed I was going to have a baby until I heard her cry. -- Liane Moriarty
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Bonnie and her mum are both members of Amnesty International," said Abigail.
"Of course they are," murmured Madeline. This must be how Jennifer Aniston feels, thought Madeline, whenever she hears about Angelina and Brad adopting another orphan or two. -- Liane Moriarty
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Sometimes a girl has to stop waiting around and come up with her own fairytale ending. -- Liane Moriarty
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But the rule of life was that the boys got to decide which girls were pretty; it didn't really matter how ugly they were themselves.) -- Liane Moriarty
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Nobody felt embarrassed in front of nice geeky people. That's why they were relaxing to be around. -- Liane Moriarty
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Stick with the nice boys ... bad boys don't bring you coffee in bed, I'll tell you that for free. -- Liane Moriarty
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How strange it all was. Wouldn't it be a lot less messy if everyone just stayed with the people they married in the first place? -- Liane Moriarty
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If she packaged the perfect Facebook life, maybe she would start to believe it herself. -- Liane Moriarty
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Compulsion: one of those solid respectable psychological-sounding words to nicely wrap the truth: she was as mad as a hatter, as crazy as a bedbug. Oh, -- Liane Moriarty
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When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy. -- Liane Moriarty
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Clementine learned to feel bad about her white middle-class privilege long before it became fashionable. -- Liane Moriarty
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Good Lord. The first person she sees is Mick Drummond, with his ancient bobbing head. Would that man never die? Was he immortal? Was he real? -- Liane Moriarty
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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 anymore. We wanted a baby. -- Liane Moriarty
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Her darling little tech-savvy, consumerist savages. -- Liane Moriarty
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The cycles of dysfunction and mental illness did not have to carry over from generation to generation. You just had to educate yourself. Erika -- Liane Moriarty
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Whoever was doing the crossword was halfway through -- Liane Moriarty
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If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck. -- Liane Moriarty
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Alice said once that she'd never been appalled by anything. Elisabeth said that was appalling. -- Liane Moriarty
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How horrible it was to be despised. To feel yourself to be despicable. -- Liane Moriarty
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It was so strange to be in a state of intense conflict with a person she barely knew. -- Liane Moriarty
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Shut up," said Madeline. "I thought we didn't say 'shut up' in our house." "Fuck off, then," said Madeline. -- Liane Moriarty
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Raising awareness. It's a good thing. Makes people think twice. -- Liane Moriarty
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Afterward she felt seedy and sexy and disheveled and filled with despair. -- Liane Moriarty
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You don't look sweaty." "I showered," said Bonnie. "But my core body temperature is still quite high." "You'll catch a chill," said Madeline. "No I won't," said -- Liane Moriarty
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This is how you lived with a terrible secret. You just did it. You pretend everything was fine. You ingored the deep, cramplike pain in your stomach. You somehow anesthetized yourself so that nothing felt that bad, but nothing felt good either. -- Liane Moriarty
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Nothing and nobody could aggravate you the way your child could aggravate you. -- Liane Moriarty
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Champagne is never a mistake. -- Liane Moriarty
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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
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The only woman who deserved a philandering husband was a philandering wife. -- Liane Moriarty
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I have no right to be sad about anything. No right to have therapy from expensive doctors like you for losing children who never existed. There is real grief in the world. There are real mothers losing real children. -- Liane Moriarty
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She was a far better mother when she had an audience. -- Liane Moriarty
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Little kids, little problems. Wait till you've got drugs and sex and social media to worry about. -- Liane Moriarty
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We were so happy. -- Liane Moriarty
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Everyone had another sort of life up their sleeve that might have made them happy. -- Liane Moriarty
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Our parents are turning into vampires," Jane's brother had said to her. "Jigsaw-playing vampires. -- Liane Moriarty
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The problem is that Sophie would't want to date the sort of man who would want to date her. -- Liane Moriarty
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Ed said to Madeline, "Why don't you have snacks in your bag? What sort of woman are you?" "This is a clutch!" Madeline -- Liane Moriarty
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You'll be fine, said Jane, giving -- Liane Moriarty
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Forty being the "precise age where you're old enough and young enough to handle a revelation". -- Liane Moriarty
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The suffragettes didn't starve themselves for the vote, so that you girls could starve yourselves for a man. -- Liane Moriarty
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It drove her to distraction the way women wanted to bond over self-hatred. -- Liane Moriarty
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Samantha: That Harper is so up herself. Of course it could have happened at a private school. And Abigail's intentions were so noble! It's just that fourteen-year-old girls are stupid. Poor Madeline. She blamed Nathan and Bonnie, although I don't know if that was fair. -- Liane Moriarty
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Cecilia did not know why her three slender daughters loved watching overweight people sweat and cry and starve. -- Liane Moriarty
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Samantha: Parents do tend to judge each other. I don't know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we're doing? And I guess that can sometimes lead to conflict. Just not normally on this sort of scale. -- Liane Moriarty
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There was no such thing as a good divorce for children. -- Liane Moriarty
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bemused. "You wouldn't -- Liane Moriarty
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She was the missing ingredient they needed. The hint of nutmeg. Connie -- Liane Moriarty
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She has become so irritatingly optimistic ever since she took up salsa dancing. -- Liane Moriarty
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I did some research into domestic violence, and there were some stories that will stay me with forever. -- Liane Moriarty
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She wanted to see it clearly, to understand that it wasn't all black, or all white. It was a million colors. And -- Liane Moriarty
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Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day. -- Liane Moriarty
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It was interesting that fury and fear could look so much the same. -- Liane Moriarty
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There are so many secrets about our lives we'll never know. -- Liane Moriarty
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Back then he was thinking with his dick. -- Liane Moriarty
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squidgiest fraction -- Liane Moriarty
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if you could float when there was no room, no space anywhere, above, below, when you couldn't take a step without feeling the spongy give of rotting stuff beneath your feet. She -- Liane Moriarty
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Cecilia sipped her tea and imagined herself going back through time and putting that Khrushchev in his place. -- Liane Moriarty
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She tried to work out who she really was without people who loved her to reflect back her personality. -- Liane Moriarty
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Oh, that feeling of hopeless grief and just wanting the pain to stop. -- Liane Moriarty
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Anyway, men don't rule the world. We have a female prime minister. And you rule your world. You rule the Fitzpatrick household. -- Liane Moriarty
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Maybe she was sexist. -- Liane Moriarty
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Life was all about consequences -- Liane Moriarty
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But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums. -- Liane Moriarty
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Supposedly, the truth was always the best option. -- Liane Moriarty
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I can't imagine us as sweet little old ladies.' 'It does seem unlikely. -- Liane Moriarty
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Why were cabdrivers so insistent on educating their passengers? -- Liane Moriarty
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Did she love him as much as she hated him? Did she hate him as much as she loved him? -- Liane Moriarty
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This can happen to anyone. -- Liane Moriarty