Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year. — Lionel Shriver 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 Copy Share Image
“We white folks cling to such an abiding sense of entitlement that when things go amiss, we cannot let go of this… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. — 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 Copy Share Image
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Frankly, the reason why lawyers were compensated so lavishly was that they were paid to attend to the most stultifying aspects of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Edith Wharton was a natural story-teller. As plots do in real life, hers flow directly from character. Her prose is so effortlessly… — Lionel Shriver 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 Copy Share Image
Some of the best scenes in drama take almost no time - helping to illustrate that life-changing events in real life often… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver 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 enough, and… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“One of the things I learned with Charles," said Gray carefully, "was that finding someone like you does not necessarily mean that either of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go… — Lionel Shriver 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 do with… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.' — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at… — Lionel Shriver 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 something so… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
