“Just cause you get used to something doesn't mean you like it." He added, snapping the magenta, "You're used to me.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Like most disguises, the cover-up was worse than honest flaw, a lesson I had yet to register on my own account.” — 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 Public schools Copy Share Image
Awful film adaptations follow novelists for the rest of their lives. An atrocious movie of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' could… — Lionel Shriver Books Copy Share Image
“Once I was no longer fussing with my coat, he said, “You may be fooling the neighbors and the guards and Jesus… — Lionel Shriver Parenting Copy Share Image
In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration… — Lionel Shriver Country Copy Share Image
Tory supporters are not spontaneously ashamed; they have been made to feel ashamed. British leftists fiercely believe they are right - in… — Lionel Shriver Believe Copy Share Image
“I suspect that children want their parents to be busy; they don't want to have to fill your schedule with their paltry… — Lionel Shriver Children Copy Share Image
“I hazarded to your mother that tragedy seems to bring out all varieties of unexpected qualities in people. I said it was… — Lionel Shriver Parenting Copy Share Image
Many, if not most, countries blithely expect their citizens to have carte blanche access to the U.S., "land of immigrants," as a… — Lionel Shriver Barriers Copy Share Image
“[T]he cardboard bookcase of her character had already collapsed under the strain.” — Lionel Shriver Fitness Copy Share Image
Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed. — Lionel Shriver Dangerous Copy Share Image
I do occasionally encounter a British business that delivers what and when, and for exactly the price, they promised. But commercial paragons… — Lionel Shriver British Copy Share Image
In the public mind, an investment banker is no longer conservative; he's a risk taker, a gambler in high stakes, not to… — Lionel Shriver Dangerous Copy Share Image
“It's as if your money, by conceit inexhaustible, isn't real, so your generosity isn't real, either.” — Lionel Shriver Generosity Copy Share Image
“Whenever I see fat people, they're eating," I ruminated safely out of the diner's earshot. "Don't give me this it's glands or… — Lionel Shriver Fat people Copy Share Image
“Likewise, the simple adjacency of warm bodies supplies the deepest of animal comfort.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood. — Lionel Shriver Important Copy Share Image
“I am a wordy writer, and often churn out pages on end without advancing the plot a jot. Hence I try to… — Lionel Shriver Children Copy Share Image
During the protracted tooth-and-nail tussle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries, I was one of those fierce… — Lionel Shriver Barack obama Copy Share Image
I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not. — Lionel Shriver Pride Copy Share Image
For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else.… — Lionel Shriver Books Copy Share Image
Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's… — Lionel Shriver Children Copy Share Image
