The Price of Honey Quotes

“Barney’s mother had messaged Honey to ask if River could salute his daddy’s casket like John F. Kennedy Jr. had done when the president was assassinated. It would make an iconic image. Honey would just need to ensure River was dressed appropriately. Honey ignored the message, the way her mother-in-law had ignored her for the last ten years.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey

“Sweetie, I lead a complicated life,” he’d explained. “I need distraction. The other women are for medicinal purposes only.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey

“they’re not ‘real,’ but the problem is they’re programmed to please you. They learn from you, right? So they become whatever you need. They get better and better at keeping you happy, at saying what you want to hear. I mean, don’t get me wrong, that can be great. It’s really soothing! But it’s like being in a relationship with your own reflection.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey

“I believe in emotional monogamy,” Barney explained, calm and only a little condescending, as if this was just another rule of this kind of rarefied life that she needed to master, like tilting and slurping oysters, like holding your wineglass by the stem, lightly, in your left hand so your right is free to shake hands. Like not asking “Which is my seat?” on boarding the private jet, cute the first time, disingenuous the second time.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey

“She asked if there was a universe where they never met”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey

“She knows the circuitous route that grief will take as it makes its way through her body.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey

“She asked if there was a universe where they never met, and he said there wasn’t one. They met in every universe. He was a romantic.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey

“It was literally on the public record that Barney was a cheat and still Honey had thought she was somehow special.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey

“Sweetie”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey

“It’s funny to hear herself described as an “older woman.” As if she has wisdom to offer anyone.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey

“she”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey

“the pain will be far worse when she is no longer protected by her disbelief”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey

“Together, as one, the wives lift their glasses high. Luisa nods. Just once. Then she’s gone.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey

“Barney’s elderly mother, festooned in rubies, sits like an angry Christmas tree across the aisle from them.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey

“She has the kind of celebrity where people can’t name her unless they hear Barney’s name first. Without him she does not exist.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey

“she knows the pain will be far worse when she is no longer protected by her disbelief.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey

“That’s how close the memory is: It still has a weekday attached to it.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey

“She asked if there was a universe where they never met, and he said there wasn’t one. They met in every universe. He was a romantic. “Barney,” she’d say if he went on for too long about the multiverse, “I can feel my engagement levels dropping.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Price of Honey