“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, quote from Big Little Lies
“All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“I mean a fat, ugly man can still be funny and lovable and successful,” continued Jane. “But it’s like it’s the most shameful thing for a woman to be.” “But you weren’t, you’re not—” began Madeline. “Yes, OK, but so what if I was!” interrupted Jane. “What if I was! That’s my point. What if I was a bit overweight and not especially pretty? Why is that so terrible? So disgusting? Why is that the end of the world?”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“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, quote from Big Little Lies
“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.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“Reading a novel was like returning to a once-beloved holiday destination.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“Those we love don’t go away, they sit beside us every day.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“Nothing and nobody could aggravate you the way your child could aggravate you.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“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, quote from Big Little Lies
“It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“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, quote from Big Little Lies
“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, quote from Big Little Lies
“women are like the Olympic athletes of grudges.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“Little kids, little problems. Wait till you’ve got drugs and sex and social media to worry about.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“If she packaged the perfect Facebook life, maybe she would start to believe it herself.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“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, quote from Big Little Lies
“If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“Children did this. They sensed when there was something controversial or sensitive and they pushed and pushed like tiny prosecutors.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“She’d swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“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, quote from Big Little Lies
“She’d never really believed in it before. Then, as she hit her late thirties, her body said, OK, you don’t believe in PMS? I’ll show you PMS. Get a load of this, bitch. Now, for one day every month, she had to fake everything: her basic humanity, her love for her children, her love for Ed. 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, quote from Big Little Lies
“When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“But every time she tried yoga she found herself silently chanting her own mantra: I’m so boooored, I’m so boooored.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“Helicopter parents. Before I started at Pirriwee Public, I thought it was an exaggeration, this thing about parents being overly involved with their kids. I mean, my mum and dad loved me, they were, like, interested in me when I was growing up in the nineties, but they weren't, like, obsessed with me.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“As she drove the familiar route to the school, she considered her magnificent new age. Forty. She could still feel "forty" the way it felt when she was fifteen. Such a colorless age. Marooned in the middle of your life. Nothing would matter all that much when you were forty. You wouldn't have real feelings when you were forty, because you'd be safely cushioned by your frumpy forty-ness.
Forty-year-old woman found dead. Oh dear.
Twenty-year-old woman found dead. Tragedy! Sadness! Find that murderer!”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“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, quote from Big Little Lies
“but sometimes doing the wrong thing was also right.”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from Big Little Lies
“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, quote from Big Little Lies
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“Yeah, that's not what you call her. You call her Jennifer… or baby… or smart ass, and even once I think you called her a mouthy little thing." Jacque waved her hand as she said, "Moving on. Okay. So, Jen, Decebel's been cursed." Jacque waited for Decebel to pass it on. The girls watched as Decebel bowed his head and started shaking it from side to side. They looked at each other, confused by his behavior. Then his shoulders began to shake. "Are you laughing?" Sally asked, bewildered. Decebel finally composed himself and looked up. "She said, 'So someone else has cursed him. What's the big deal? I curse him all the time'." They all started laughing; not only Jen's words, but at the puzzled tone with which Decebel relayed Jen's words. Jacque rolled her eyes. "No, you dimwit. Cursed as in its 'Leviosa' not 'Leviosa'. Not curse as in dumb ass." "She's asking why the hell you're quoting Harry Potter… again?" Decebel was getting more and more confused by the conversation the two girls were having--through his thoughts.”
― Quinn Loftis, quote from Out of the Dark
“My shamans have read the sands. They have learned much of your future. (...)’
Gamet was scowling. ‘I do not wish to offend, Warchief, but I hold little faith in divination. No mortal—no god—can say we are doomed, or destined. The future remains unknown, the one thing we cannot force a pattern upon.’
(...)
‘Do you not see patterns in history, Fist? Are you blind to the cycles we all suffer through? Look upon this desert, this wasteland you cross. Yours is not the first empire that would claim it. And what of the tribes? Before the Khundryl, before the Kherahn Dhobri and the Tregyn, there were the Sanid, and the Oruth, and before them there were others whose names have vanished. Look upon the ruined cities, the old roads. The past is all patterns, and those patterns remain beneath our feet, even as the stars above reveal their own patterns—for the stars we gaze upon each night are naught but an illusion from the past.’ He raised the jug again and studied it for a moment. ‘Thus, the past lies beneath and above the present, Fist. This is the truth my shamans embrace, the bones upon which the future clings like muscle.”
― Steven Erikson, quote from House of Chains
“Then he remembered that the man was a fucking moron and that explained everything.”
― R.L. Mathewson, quote from Perfection
“You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.”
― Philip Roth, quote from The Dying Animal
“This is it?” he asked.
“Yeah,” Megan replied.
“Wow. I thought girls were notorious for overpacking.”
“I’m not much of a girl,” Megan replied.
What? What did you just say?
He looked her up and down and smiled. “Could’ve fooled me.”
― quote from Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys
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