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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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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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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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Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.Liane Moriarty
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It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip off 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 be truly intimate with your spouse; because how could you watch someone floss one minute, and the next minute share your deepest passion or tritest of fears? It was almost easier to talk about that sort of thing before you’d shared a bathroom and a bank account and argued over the packing of the dishwasher.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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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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Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.Liane Moriarty
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Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen Polly show more than a passing interest in strawberry jam, although now, of course, she was always catching her standing at the open fridge, staring at it longingly. The power of denial.Liane Moriarty