Big Little Lies Quotes: “Big Little Lies” is a television series based on the novel of the same name by Liane Moriarty. The show was created by David E. Kelley and premiered on HBO on February 19, 2017. It was initially planned as a limited series but was later renewed for a second season due to its critical and commercial success.
The series is set in the picturesque coastal town of Monterey, California, and revolves around the lives of a group of women who are linked by their children attending the same school. The main characters are Madeline Martha Mackenzie (played by Reese Witherspoon), Celeste Wright (played by Nicole Kidman), and Jane Chapman (played by Shailene Woodley). They become entangled in a web of secrets and lies that leads to a tragic incident at a school fundraiser.
Big Little Lies Quotes
Renata : She doesn’t need to know it’s a therapist. Some of the best ones now dress up as clowns. She could think it’s another birthday surprise.
Madeline : “I might have kissed him back. It was like a reflex you know somebody kisses you you kiss them back. I might have grabbed his ass. I don’t know, it all just happened so fast.”
Madeline : “I am a lady and I’ve never said this to anybody in my entire life but I’m gonna say it to you: You can go f*ck yourself on the head.”
Madeline : “Sometimes I’m just holding onto this idea of perfection so tight, something has to give.”
Renata :” It’s better than sitting around the penniless losers as if that’s not us.”
Madeline : Come meet my knight in shining armor. She rescued me like a wounded dog in the street. And you know what else? She’s funny.
Madeline : And bring me something chocolate that won’t make my ass look fat.
Celeste : “My life isn’t perfect, Madeline, bad things have happened to me. I do understand the concept.”
Madeline : “I love my grudges. I tend to them like little pets.”
Madeline : “You know how I feel about riding with texters. It is worse than drinking and driving.”
Madeline Mackenzie : “Bruises heal, stigmas can last a lifetime.”
Madeline Mackenzie : “If you were crazy, you’d fit in perfectly in this town.”
Jane Chapman : “Sometimes when I’m in a new place. I get this sensation. Like, if only I were here.”
Celeste Wright : “Men can be a little more intuitive than we give them credit for.”
Madeline Mackenzie : “Champagne is never a mistake.”
Madeline Mackenzie : “I am a lady and I’ve never said this to anybody in my entire life but I’m gonna say it to you: you can go fuck yourself on the head.”
Madeline Mackenzie : “Those we love don’t go away, they sit beside us every day.”
Jane Chapman : “It’s because a woman’s entire self-worth rests on her looks, that’s why. 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.”
Bonnie Carlson : “None of us really see things as they are, we see things as we are.”
Madeline Martha Mackenzie : “Honesty is always the best policy.”
Madeline Martha Mackenzie: “Life is a series of building blocks that you stand on and you grow on.”
Mary Louise Wright : “People are never really gone. Because they live on in the hearts of those they leave behind.”
Madeline Martha Mackenzie : That’s the thing about families. Is that you can be mad and you can fight, but you get over it, and you always come back together. That’s what families do.
“All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt”
“When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once.”
“Reading a novel was like returning to a once-beloved holiday destination.”
“There’s a difference between heartbroken and damaged,” said Ed. “You were sad and hurt. Maybe your heart was broken, but you weren’t broken.”
“It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.”
“The only woman who deserved a philandering husband was a philandering wife.”
“They say it’s good to let your grudges go, but I don’t know, I’m quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.”
“When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.”
“First kisses didn’t necessarily require darkness and alcohol, they could happen in the open air, with the sun warm on your face and everything around you honest and real and true.”
“All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?”
“Overtired five-year-olds needed to be handled like explosive devices.”
“Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else. Oh, it was a funny old world.”
“Those we love don’t go away, they sit beside us every day.”
“The boys had always been her reason to stay, but now for the first time they were her reason to leave. She’d allowed violence to become a normal part of their life.”