Big Little Lies

Champagne is never a mistake

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck. They followed the rules, and the rules had been proven to work.

“It’s almost worth it,” she’d told Susi.

Perhaps it was even fair. A little violence was a bargain price for a life that would otherwise be just too sickeningly, lavishly, moonlit perfect.

Perry wasn’t a villain. He was a man who just sometimes behaved very badly.

She didn’t know that Perry’s temper was only one part of him, it wasn’t all of him.

pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything.

It’s because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.

Her boys were gorgeous little darlings. Her boys were feral little animals.

She would never leave Perry any more than she could leave the boys.

sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.

You always feel better tomorrow.”