Some of the best scenes in drama take almost no time - helping to illustrate that life-changing events in real life often… — Lionel Shriver Best Copy Share Image
“A petty one, but most resentments are. And one that for its smallness I felt obliged to repress. For that matter, that… — Lionel Shriver Anger Copy Share Image
Formal declarations of mistrust, pre-nups are emotionally unfortunate. They overtly plan for failure, and thus involve a jarring cognitive dissonance. — Lionel Shriver Cognitive Copy Share Image
“I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself in its totality makes you safe.” — Lionel Shriver Damage Copy Share Image
Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade. — Lionel Shriver Firsts Copy Share Image
Criminality being partially preordained may seem to let culprits off the hook. Yet it also makes the proclivity seem ineradicable and suggests… — Lionel Shriver Always 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 Bodies 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
“as soon as I seized upon the otherworldly, it joined this world and didn’t count.” — 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
“Precocious was not the same as smart, much less the same as wise, and the perfect opposite of informed - since the… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I had some idea of what I was supposed to say back: Now, I know you don’t mean that, when I knew… — Lionel Shriver Young man Copy Share Image
“If you take that away from me, and every other opportunity to not quite toe the line,” Willing said, “then however many… — Lionel Shriver Freedom 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 have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt. — Lionel Shriver Contempt Copy Share Image
The absence of doll babies in my toy chest didn't seriously influence my later decision not to become a mother; rather, I… — Lionel Shriver Alive Copy Share Image
However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry. — Lionel Shriver Deficiency 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 Hardest thing Copy Share Image
“She had some appreciation for folks with a greed for sensation. Who were determined to "squeeze the orange" and press fresh experience… — Lionel Shriver Every day Copy Share Image
“It was peculiar how the more you got to know someone, the more you grew to appreciate how little you knew, how… — Lionel Shriver Romance Copy Share Image
“Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And one of our consuming diversions as we age is to… — Lionel Shriver Age Copy Share Image
“Some people think that asking a question gives them a right to know the answer somehow. Well, it's not true. You've no… — Lionel Shriver Asking a question Copy Share Image
