She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.
Liane MoriartyDo 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 MoriartyShe 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 MoriartyIt 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 MoriartyAll 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 MoriartyNone 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 MoriartyOh, come on now," she said mildly, as a car suddenly pulled into the lane in front of her. She lifted her hand to toot the horn and then didn't bother. Note how I didn't scream and yell like a mad person, she thought for the benefit of that afternoon's psychotic truck driver, just in case he happened to have stopped by to read her mind.
Liane MoriartyMots clés humor road-rage mind-reading
You could try as hard as you could to imagine someone else's tragedy - but nothing truly hurts until it happens to you.
Liane MoriartyMots clés wisdom
Polly had arrived in the world outraged to discover that her sisters had gotten there before her.
Liane MoriartyMots clés humor childhood sisters
Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.
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