Liane Allador Quotes

It won't happen again, I swear it!" Karic rasped.

"If we'd reached my lair in time it never would have happened at all!"

"But it did, it did and nothing will ever be the same! ~ Kathleen Morgan

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

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions. ~ Liane Moriarty

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

Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times. ~ Liane Moriarty

To err is human; to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope"
Excerpt From: Moriarty, Liane. "The Husband's Secret. ~ Alexander Pope

She always said yes to whoever asked her out. It wouldn't have occurred to her to say no. ~ Liane Moriarty

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

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

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

Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again. ~ Liane Moriarty

Did she have to go to parties on her own again now? She remembered that raw sensation she'd felt after previous relationships had ended. For months afterward, it had felt like she'd lost a layer of skin. If she'd felt like that after those meaningless boys, what would she feel like after breaking with Nick? She'd been so cozy in the cocoon of their relationship. She assumed she got to stay there forever. ~ Liane Moriarty

there was real pain in the world, right this very moment people were suffering unimaginable atrocities and you couldn't close your heart completely, but you couldn't leave it wide open either, because otherwise how could you possibly live your life, when through pure, random luck you got to live in paradise? You ~ Liane Moriarty

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

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

She found it soothing to get caught up in a brightly colored, plastic world where all that mattered was how much you ate and exercised, where pain and anguish were suffered over no greater tragedy than push-ups, where people spoke intensely about calories and sobbed joyfully over lost kilos. And then they all lived happily, skinnily ever after. ~ Liane Moriarty

Breathe in. She didn't give a fig what other people thought! Breathe out. Rubbish. She gave a whole fig tree. ~ Liane Moriarty

There was no point saying, You mustn't feel responsible. Of course she felt responsible. Denying her regret would be like denying her loss. ~ Liane Moriarty

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

You get what you get and you don't get upset! screamed Fred. ~ Liane Moriarty

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

Samantha: Listen, you need to get your head around the demographics of this place. So first of all you've got your blue collars - tradies, we call them. We've got a lot of tradies in Pirriwee. Like my Stu. Salt of the earth. Or salt of the sea, because they all surf, of course. Most of the tradies grew up here and never left. Then you've got your alternative types. Your dippy hippies. And in the last ten years or so, all these wealthy execs and banker wankers have moved in and built massive McMansions up on the cliffs. But! There's only one primary school for all our kids! So at school events you've got a plumber, a banker and a crystal healer standing around trying to make conversation. It's hilarious. No wonder we had a riot. ~ Liane Moriarty

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

Marriage to Perry meant she was always ready to justify her actions, constantly monitoring what she'd just said or done, while simultaneously feeling defensive about the defensiveness, her thoughts and feelings twisting into impenetrable knots, so that sometimes, like right now, sitting in a room with normal people, all the things she couldn't say rose in her throat and for a moment she couldn't breathe. ~ Liane Moriarty

She couldn't shake the feeling that if she didn't record this moment on her phone then it wasn't really happening, it didn't count ~ Liane Moriarty

Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim. ~ Liane Holliday Willey

Thirty-nine-year-old moderately successful Human Resources Director. Interests include regency romances, reality TV, and baking large novelty birthday cakes for other people's children. Hobbies include drinking Tia Maria and eating Turkish delight in the bath and dining out with her mum and dad. Wanted to be a ballerina but didn't end up with a ballerina body; however, has been told she is an impressive dirty dancer when drunk. Knows her wine, so please just hand the wine list over. Godmother to nine children, member of two book clubs, Social Club Manager for the Australian Payroll Officers' Association. Suffers from a severe blushing problem but is not shy and will probably end up better friends with your friends than you, which you'll find highly irritating after we break up. Has recently become so worried about meeting the love of her life and having children before she reaches menopause that she has cried piteously in the middle of the night. But otherwise is generally quite cheerful and has on at least three separate occasions that she knows of been described as 'Charming'. Yep, that about summed it up. What a catch. ~ Liane Moriarty

Why were cabdrivers so insistent on educating their passengers? ~ Liane Moriarty

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

Women are like the Olympic athletes of grudges. ~ Liane Moriarty

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

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

Listeria, wisteria. Ha. Funny words. She ~ Liane Moriarty

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

The weather wasn't helping. It was far too lovely, mocking her pain. ~ Liane Moriarty

It's easy to think the minefield wasn't that bad once you're safely watching other people get blown up. ~ Liane Moriarty

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

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

Stick with the nice boys ... bad boys don't bring you coffee in bed, I'll tell you that for free. ~ Liane Moriarty

Why did people feel the need to comment on the rain, when they had absolutely nothing of value to add to the conversation? ~ Liane Moriarty

He worked on it for over fifteen years before he died in his fifties of complications caused by pneumonia. ~ Liane Moriarty

On my way. Nearly there! These were their last foolish (and often misspelled) words. Madeline ~ Liane Moriarty

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

She was the missing ingredient they needed. The hint of nutmeg. Connie ~ Liane Moriarty

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

I think I'm falling for a red herring here, ~ Liane Moriarty

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

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

I understand now that desperate, clumsy desire to make people feel better - even when you know perfectly well that nothing will. ~ Liane Moriarty

She is at her son's funeral and her daughter is delivering a eulogy, and afterward people keep touching Heather, so much touching, everyone wants to paw at her, it is repulsive, and they are all saying, Oh, you must be so proud, Zoe spoke so beautifully, as if it's fucking school speech night, not her son's funeral, and can't you see my daughter is alone now, how can she live without her brother, she never even existed without him, and who cares if she spoke beautifully, she can't even stand, her father is holding her upright, my daughter can't even walk. ~ Liane Moriarty