People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment. — Lionel Shriver Adaptation Copy Share Image
“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303” — Lionel Shriver Acceptance Copy Share Image
“What is cool changes; that there is such a thing as cool is immutable.” — Lionel Shriver Change Copy Share Image
“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
Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. — Lionel Shriver Attachment Copy Share Image
We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans. — Lionel Shriver Climate Copy Share Image
As a woman, I'd be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general. — Lionel Shriver Being Copy Share Image
Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home. — Lionel Shriver Coming home Copy Share Image
The premiere of Lynne Ramsay's film of 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' at the Cannes film festival provides an apt juncture… — Lionel Shriver Cannes film festival Copy Share Image
In the perfect world, no one would need pre-nups. But all too often, a misty-eyed romancer at the altar transforms into a… — Lionel Shriver Marriage Copy Share Image
“I was disquieted to realize that he had ceased to call me anything at all. That seemed impossible, but your children generally… — Lionel Shriver Children Copy Share Image
A pre-nup is an insurance policy or, in brokerage terms, a short hedge - meant to mitigate a high-risk investment. It safeguards… — Lionel Shriver Character Copy Share Image
When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in… — Lionel Shriver Afraid Copy Share Image
“I think that's the biggest favor you can grant anyone, don't you? Permission to be dull. I know Henry will sometimes say… — Lionel Shriver Love Copy Share Image
“I’m a journalist, and journalists need news. Deprive them of it, and they go a bit barking. Deprive them of news long… — Lionel Shriver Journalism Copy Share Image
“I have theorized that you can locate most people on a spectrum of the crudest sort and that it may be their… — Lionel Shriver People Spectrum Copy Share Image
“Now, over the years I've been forced to conclude that most celebrations don't work. The more carefully planned a signal occasion, the… — Lionel Shriver Birthday Copy Share Image
“Just because there are lots of them doesn't mean that the hot apple pies aren't excellent or that it isn't a privilege… — Lionel Shriver Apple pie Copy Share Image
“Having buck teeth in junior high,” she rounded up unsteadily, “must be ideal preparation for getting old. For pretty people, aging is… — Lionel Shriver Aging Copy Share Image
“But after I’d survived for so long on the scraps from my own emotional table, you spoiled me with a daily banquet… — Lionel Shriver 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
“That was one of your favorite themes: that profusion, replication, popularity wasn't necessarily devaluing, and that time itself made all things rare.… — Lionel Shriver Fleeting 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
“With no interruptions to admire dolly outfits, no tomorrow is a school day, we gorged on fruit and sorbet and splashed immoderate… — Lionel Shriver Clear head Copy Share Image
“I'm unsure why one trifling incident this afternoon has moved me to write to you. But since we've been separated, I may… — Lionel Shriver Coming home Copy Share Image
But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some… — Lionel Shriver Abandoned Copy Share Image
“If Edgar sounded overeager, even rushed, the race was with his own temperament. He placed a premium on savvy. Yet since you… — Lionel Shriver Naivete Copy Share Image
“The idea is that you don't only have one destiny. Younger and younger, kids are pressed to decide what they want to… — Lionel Shriver Advantages and disadvantages Copy Share Image
“It was really rather wretched that you couldn’t will yourself to fall in love, for the very effort can keep falling at… — Lionel Shriver Fall in love Copy Share Image
“Pregnancy had seemed a reasonable excuse for letting her metal-smithing tools languish, but that accounted for only eighteen months of the last… — Lionel Shriver Artists Copy Share Image
“All these men afraid of bein’ crowded, ain’t they? They need all this room, they afraid some woman gonna crawl in their… — Lionel Shriver Afraid Copy Share Image
