The Last Anniversary Quotes

“Love is a decision?’ ‘That’s right. A decision. Not a feeling. That’s what you young people don’t realise. That’s why you’re always off divorcing each other.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“Sometimes a girl has to stop waiting around and come up with her own fairytale ending.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“A marriage is hard work and sometimes it’s a bit of a bore. It’s like housework. It’s never finished. You’ve just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“Every day is a gift, Jake. Of course sometimes it’s a really horrible gift that you don’t want.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“But then she just got tired of hating him and started loving him again. It was easier.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“I’ll tell you something, something important. Write this down. You ready?’ ‘Yes, yes, I’m ready.’ ‘Love is a decision.’ ‘Love is a decision?’ ‘That’s right. A decision. Not a feeling. That’s what you young people don’t realise.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“But Grace quite likes the fact that you can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you’re wrong, it can be something else entirely. It makes her feel free. Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“If her back had ever hurt like this when she was twenty she would have been hysterical, demanding painkillers and cups of tea in bed, but she has found that nobody is especially surprised to hear you’re in pain when you’re in your eighties. You might find it astonishing, but nobody else does.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“The sky looks comfortingly mundane compared to the garish kaleidoscope of the stained glass. It makes Rose yearn to be reliving any one of a thousand ordinary days spent with her ordinary older sister, who has now done this extraordinary thing and died.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“It seems to make no difference that she still feels exactly the same person as when she was twenty-five, the birthdays just keep right on coming.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“a man who despises himself so much that the only way he can alleviate his feelings of inferiority is by stomping down his wife’s personality with a daily stream of nasty jibes.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“The problem is that Sophie would't want to date the sort of man who would want to date her.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“You can still bake a perfectly good cake while losing your mind.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“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, The Last Anniversary

“marriage is hard work and sometimes it’s a bit of a bore. It’s like housework. It’s never finished. You’ve just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day. Of course, the men don’t work as hard at it as we do, but that’s men for you, isn’t it? They’re not much good at housework either.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“Love is a decision.’ ‘Love is a decision?’ ‘That’s right. A decision. Not a feeling.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“the sales reps walks by her office, taps on the glass wall and calls out, ‘Yo, Soph!’ She calls back ‘Yo, Matt!’ and waves a fist in the air like a homeboy. She is such a fraud. She taps quickly on the delete key, thinking with pleasurable horror of the reaction if she had accidentally clicked on ‘send’. Their hurt, earnest faces! What can Thomas possibly want, after all this time? She finds herself remembering a sugary-brown smell. It is the smell of cinnamon toast, frangipani blossoms and Mr Sheen –the smell of his Aunt Connie’s house. Sophie had been going out with Thomas for nearly a year when she decided to break up with him. The decision was the result of weeks of agonised self-analysis. Yes, she loved him, but did she love him for the right reasons? She knew, for example, that it was right to love a man for his kind heart, but wrong to love him for his bank account. It was fine to love him for his gorgeous blue eyes, but shallow to love him for his tanned muscles. (Unless, of course, they were uniquely his muscles,”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“after a fancy-dress fortieth, and a very weird sober kiss with a fat man in the”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“Sophie has always thought that the first time you get the hysterical giggles with a new female friend is like the first time you sleep with a new boyfriend; it takes your relationship to a new more intimate level.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“Neither of us is going to jail, you ninny. One day we’ll be sweet little old ladies and we’ll probably forget that it didn’t happen the way we said it did.’

‘I can’t imagine us as sweet little old ladies.’

‘It does seem unlikely.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“All of a sudden she thought she had all the time in the world. Pride comes before someone trips you flat on your face.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“forty being the “precise age where you’re old enough and young enough to handle a revelation”.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“Actually, what that child needs, thinks Enigma, sniffing noisily, is a real good fuck.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“Veronika had accused her father of being a misogynist and Thomas had told Veronika to stop acting like a pseudo lesbian intellectual.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“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, The Last Anniversary

“Building your dream home is a fast-track to divorce,”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“Jab, jab, truce! This, it seems, is marriage–”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary

“A woman would be more intelligent, obviously.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary