Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty, 2024
Mystery, thriller & crime Contemporary fiction
A flight is delayed, a passenger stands up and predicts the deaths of the people around her, and dozens of lives have to go on afterwards.
Feels like unease and curiosity. About freedom and morality.
A page from the book
The self-help shelf says you choose your future. The odds say otherwise.
You can’t always choose your future. Not in a world of risk and uncertainty. No matter what the self-help gurus tell you. You can only attempt to guide it in the right direction, like a willful horse, but accept there will be times when it will gallop off in a direction not of your choosing. No one can tell you what lies ahead with one hundred percent accuracy. If your doctor tells you ninety-nine out of one hundred people die of your disease, you most likely will die, but you might also be the one who beats the odds, and if you do, you will believe yourself special and blessed, and your loved ones will believe the fervency of their prayers for you paid dividends, but it’s just math. It’s all just math. Liane Moriarty.Before her first novel, Three Wishes (2004), Moriarty worked in advertising and marketing in Sydney — and her sister, Jaclyn Moriarty, is also a published novelist.
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- What is Here One Moment like?
- Feels like unease and curiosity. About freedom and morality.
- What should I read after Here One Moment?
- If you liked Here One Moment, try The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami), Lock Every Door (Riley Sager) and Life’s Too Short (Abby Jimenez).
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What four in the morning does to water, air, and books.
But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o’clock in the morning.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle · Haruki Murakami
The part of poverty that people who haven't lived it miss.
Because here’s the thing about being poor—most people don’t understand it unless they’ve been there themselves. They don’t know what a fragile balancing act it is to stay afloat and that if, God forbid, you momentarily slip underwater, how hard it is to resurface.
Lock Every Door · Riley Sager
A life philosophy delivered as a list of permissions.
Don’t ever forget the things I taught you. Life’s too short, Adrian. It is too fucking short. Eat the cake, take the vacation, dance in the rain. And don’t do anything that’s going to break your heart. I’m just sorry that in this case, that thing was me.
Life’s Too Short · Abby Jimenez
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