Best Lionel Shriver Sayings
- But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon. Commend
- I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts. Counts
- It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in. Absolute
- People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment. Adaptation
- Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. Attachment
- Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade. Day
- You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone… Assumed
- I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do… Almost Get
- We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym… Agony
- Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water. Bereaved
- I never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly thirty-three by then, and my past without you was… Companionship
- Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home. All
- Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin does not amaze… Amaze
- So many stories are determined before they start. Determined
- Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't. Favour
- Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison. "Yes, we're all alike," I said. "We cover for you, we lie for… Across