“Over the years I observed Kevin watching decapitations, disembowelments, dismemberments, flayings, impalements, deoculations, and crucifixions, and I never saw him flinch. Because… — 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 Aimlessness 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 Age Copy Share Image
“He looks uncomfortable, and in this respect the garb is apt. Kevin is uncomfortable; the tiny clothing replicates the same constriction that… — Lionel Shriver Constriction Copy Share Image
“I'd get this, I luuuuuuuv you, buddy! stuff, and I'd just look at him like, Who are you talking to, guy? What… — Lionel Shriver Dad Copy Share Image
The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity. — Lionel Shriver Great times Copy Share Image
“It was a whole world, his mouth, a whole unsuspected world, and kissing him occasioned the same sense of discovery as sliding… — Lionel Shriver Tap water Copy Share Image
“Food was a responsibility, a ward she was determined to go by, ... She'd force herself through to the last forkful even… — Lionel Shriver Food Copy Share Image
Conservative supporters might either have the courage of their convictions or, if truly ashamed, revise them, but they should at least refute… — Lionel Shriver Conservative Copy Share Image
“Everything works, doesn't it? At least if you're white and middle class. So it must often seem to young people that they're… — Lionel Shriver Middle class Copy Share Image
Weight having become politicised, anyone with a profile in the media who either subscribes to or departs from the template of tininess… — Lionel Shriver Become Copy Share Image
“His weight makes him a social pariah. It reduces the likelihood he’ll remarry. It has grave implications for his health. But it… — Lionel Shriver Being good 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 Good life Copy Share Image
“How much did you care about anything that went on in my head until it got out?” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“She loved him, but that wasn't good enough. The word "love" was required to cover such a range of emotions that it… — Lionel Shriver Good enough Copy Share Image
Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity's power. — Lionel Shriver Heavy Copy Share Image
“It's not that I have no shame. Rather, I'm exhausted with shame, slippery all over with its sticky albumen taint. It is… — Lionel Shriver Shame Copy Share Image
“But the one thing he could not have imagined is that we were withholding nothing. That there was nothing on the other… — Lionel Shriver Nothing Copy Share Image
The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one. — Lionel Shriver Bites 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 Time Copy Share Image
“I see now what they mean by "holding your head high," and I am sometimes surprised by how much interior transformation a… — Lionel Shriver Holding Your Head High Copy Share Image
