“It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“What is cool changes; that there is such a thing as cool is immutable.” — Lionel Shriver Change Copy Share Image
“Take care of the components, ad the sum of their parts unfolds as if by magic.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I've never been shy. I've just waited until I had something to say.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]” — Lionel Shriver Kindness Copy Share Image
A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us. — Lionel Shriver Catholic Copy Share Image
“This sounds idiotic, but every time I encounter a picture of myself I am shocked to have been seen.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Should what you get up to fail to comport with who you think you are, something is surely inaccurate (and likely optimistic)… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“But you said that if the U.S. were to fall or founder during your lifetime, collapse economically, be overrun by an aggressor,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Dieting is odious and can require years of determination and sacrifice. I entirely understand the impulse to say, 'Screw it,' and have… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“You can blame your mother, and she can blame hers. Leastways sooner or later it's the fault of somebody who's dead.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything… — Lionel Shriver Audience Copy Share Image
Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“And Lawrence was afraid of the main thing. He had a tendency to talk feverishly all around the main thing, as if… — Lionel Shriver Mind Copy Share Image
“A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship,it must be maintained, and with far… — Lionel Shriver Committed relationship Copy Share Image
“High rents had priced out the very service sector whose presence at ready hand once helped to justify urban living. For all… — Lionel Shriver Life Copy Share Image
“It was a whole world, his mouth, a whole unsuspected world, and kissing him occasioned the same sense of discovery as sliding… — Lionel Shriver Discovery Copy Share Image
“The word love was required to cover such a range of emotions that it almost meant nothing at all. Since the love… — Lionel Shriver Love Copy Share Image
“This was food without you. Our loft, rich with the international booty of baskets and carvings, took on the tacky, cluttered aspect… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of… — Lionel Shriver Civilization Copy Share Image
“Then, you were always captivated by self-sacrifice. However admirable, your eagerness to give your life over to another person may have been… — Lionel Shriver Easy way Copy Share Image
What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Yet in my experience, when left to their own devices people will get up to one of two things: nothing much, and… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“You loved to savor the present tense and were more conscious than anyone I have ever met that its every constituent is… — Lionel Shriver Present tense Copy Share Image
Everything people do that doesn’t work has to be somebody else’s fault. Next time you know, geezers’ll be suing the government for… — Lionel Shriver Court Copy Share Image
I think Britain is a little better at bringing intellectuals into discourse than America, where I'm from. Though I would say, perhaps,… — Lionel Shriver America Copy Share Image
“Dr. Rhinestein did not test for malice, for spiteful indifference, or for congenital meanness. If they could, I wonder how many fish… — Lionel Shriver Fish Copy Share Image
The daughter of an ordained minister, I had been forced to go to church since I was a toddler. I hated church… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable. — Lionel Shriver Achievable Copy Share Image
“there is something implicitly uninteresting about the look of a person who will tell you whatever you want to know.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Authors are free to ignore their editors' advice. I often avail myself of this veto power - sometimes out of a pigheadedness… — Lionel Shriver Advice Copy Share Image
“I see now what they mean by "holding your head high," and I am sometimes surprised by how much interior transformation a… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“This sounds idiotic, but every time I encounter a picture of myself I am shocked to have been seen. I do not,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“For that matter, all this, is there a God? Corlis -- I don't care!" "Huh," I considered. "I guess I don't either".… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Thus even tragedy can be accompanied by a trace of relief. The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our… — Lionel Shriver Heartbreaking Copy Share Image
“He looks uncomfortable, and in this respect the garb is apt. Kevin is uncomfortable; the tiny clothing replicates the same constriction that… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, the one respect in which I depart from my younger self is that I now regard those people who have little… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
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