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 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.”

Now, for one day every month, she had to fake everything: her basic humanity

Now I’ll be in the presence of both great love and great beauty.

How could they admit to a stranger what went on in their marriage? The shame of it. The ugliness of their behavior.

Did she love him as much as she hated him? Did she hate him as much as she loved him?