Big Little Lies Quotes
"Feel so blessed. A beautiful experience being able to contribute like this."
"We should change to the American spelling. I have body-image issues, by the way. Who doesn’t, right?"
"All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?"
"I’m not saying I didn’t have support. I had my parents to help me too. But my God, there were some nights."
"They’re like mum prefects. They feel very strongly about their roles as school mums. It’s like their religion."
"I love that hairstyle! I told Lucy Ponder when I’m ready to run for the PTA she can give me the approved blond bob."
"It’s a wonder she didn’t get herself killed."
"That child has never harmed a fly. He’s just like Poppy."
"A beautiful experience being able to contribute like this. Feel so blessed."
"I always thought there was something not quite right about that child. That Ziggy."
"I was flying when I skied over that big jump yesterday."
"I think this is going to be a good year for us."
"I’m going to do everything in my power to make this a good year for us."
"She was still hopelessly, helplessly attracted to him."
"But it was too late. He came into the office, smiling."
"It was similar to that intense way you felt when you were newly in love."
"That’s how she thought of it. As if she and Perry engaged in some sort of strange, disgusting and perverted sexual practice."
"I want to live in a double-decker house like this."
"I always thought that Nathan’s punishment for walking out on us would be that Abigail wouldn’t love him the way she loved me."
"I’ll show you PMS. Get a load of this, bitch."
"I’m not ashamed to say I got a bit teary when I saw Skye in her school uniform."
"You know we can afford to get you a new one," he’d said once when he came upon her in the laundry, scrubbing furiously at a stain on the collar of a silk shirt.
"I didn’t mean we fixed the whole ozone layer, I meant the thing with aerosol cans. The, umm, the something-or-others."
"Why don’t you take them to live shows? We don’t need free tickets!"
"He’s away for three weeks. I’m away again next Friday. Why would I need alone time?"
"I’m taking the boys to Disney On Ice. Madeline got free tickets, and a group of us are going."
"I’m not going to win, right? Some of these mothers have personal trainers."
"I was going to tell you this later, but I’ll tell you now."
"She’s a really fast runner. She’s, like, much younger than you, Mum."
"You need to learn some dental hygiene. You’ll never be beautiful, but at least you won’t be fat."
"It infuriates me that he had that power over me."
"You’re beautiful. No! I’m not! And that’s OK that I’m not."
"I didn’t mean to lose so much weight. It makes me angry."
"I think it was the shock of it more than anything."
"What if my beautiful Ziggy has a secret cruel streak?"
"The more he hurts me, the higher I go and the longer I get to stay there."
"The pure pleasure of seeing the boys run to him."
"But I’ve got lots of other friends who are allowed to play with me, like Chloe and Fred."
"She knows all this stuff because she’s a really super-good reader."
"Well, that’s because Amabella’s parents think you’ve been hurting her."
"I promised Amabella I wouldn’t tell anyone ever."
"I’ll bring the full weight of the law down on your—"
"We decided not to get the police involved this time."
"I don’t want legal advice. I am asking you to leave."
"I’d betray Stu for Tom’s coffee. Jeez. I’d murder for it!"
"She’s selling her virginity on the Internet!"
"I’ve had personal experience with the little buggers."
"It’s sort of hilarious hearing Nathan using modern parenting terminology."
"We’re her parents. We have to tell her there will be, er, consequences."
"This is not a ‘whatever’-type situation. This is serious."
"The health benefits of forgiveness are really quite extraordinary."
"I think the rain is finally stopping. It smells nice. All salty and fresh."
"Telling the truth is the most important thing a witness has to do."
"It was a mystery to her how anyone could find that more interesting than wrap dresses."
"When most people lied, they avoided eye contact; when Celeste lied, she held it."
"Every rape, every brutal backhanded slap, every other Perry that had come before this one."
"No woman should pay for the accidental death of that particular man."
"I don’t think I can knowingly lie in a police investigation."
"The truth is bound to come out. I don’t hide under the bed anymore. I don’t keep secrets, and I don’t want people to keep secrets for me."
"Friends could last a lifetime. The statistics were better than for relationships."
"She had been planning to give them the facts, but not to spill her soul."