“...trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time… — Lionel Shriver 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
“I never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly 33 by then, and my past… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I was reminded of the time I got a free upgrade to first class, where I sat right next to Sean Connery.… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Just because there are lots of them doesn't mean that it isn't a privilege to live in a time when you can… — 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
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
“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
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 never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly thirty-three by then, and my past… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“...Remember that nutty little story I told you about the first time I ever went overseas for my junior year abroad at… — Lionel Shriver 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 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 Copy Share Image
“I did feel a concentrated dislike for those boys, who couldn't submit to the odd faithless girlfriend, needling classmate, or dose of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“These were good people and they had been good to us and we had therefore had a good time. To conclude otherwise… — 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… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“...it's not all it's cracked up to be, having real emotions. I know that with the most dazzling men there have been… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“The irony is, though your parents always deplored his absence of Protestant industry, those two have more in common with Kevin than… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out to be a killer" would never have turned up on the… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I came to regard my body in a new light. For the first time I apprehended the little mounds on my chest… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already… — 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
