Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times. Liane Moriarty More Quotes by Liane Moriarty More Quotes From Liane Moriarty Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky Liane Moriarty holding-onfalling-in-loveeasy 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 breathingcrylike-you Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best-- well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word. Liane Moriarty divorcehurtchildren They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves and reveal to each other a whole new level of otherness, a level far beyond what sort of music they liked. It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship. It was almost embarrassing to Liane Moriarty falling-in-lovepridehumility All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think? Liane Moriarty hurtfeelingsthinking 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 takenshould-haveforever Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day. Liane Moriarty losing-a-loved-onecondolencessympathy A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate party was breathtakingly insignificant in comparison to that poor man (thirty!) crashing to the ground for the freedom that Cecilia took for granted, but right now, she couldn’t pause to honor his memory, because a last-minute change of party theme was unacceptable. That’s what happened when you had freedom. You lost your mind over a pirate party. Liane Moriarty partymenmemories Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy. Liane Moriarty doing-your-bestbitsright-now But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums. Liane Moriarty sawsalbumslife 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 richwantedbeautiful Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Liane Moriarty pandorasecretforever 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 orangeworst-enemycharacter If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck. Liane Moriarty good-luckparentchildren 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 petlittleslife 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 floatingfalling-in-lovekissing I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike! Liane Moriarty differencesmotherthinking 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 what-ifendsworld Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation. Liane Moriarty hoveringaggravationinsanity 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 shininglightway
