“I’d no idea that you’d prove such an able apprentice. You were sure to be a journalist, in which case the chances… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]” — Lionel Shriver Kindness Copy Share Image
“Then, you were always captivated by self-sacrifice. However admirable, your eagerness to give your life over to another person may have been… — Lionel Shriver Easy way Copy Share Image
“...never lie about my age because I want credit for every damned year.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“A obstinação pura e simples é mais durável que a coragem, embora não seja tão” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“For Celia, her whole surround was animate, and each tapioca lump had a dense, nauseating little soul.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“In the very instant of his birth, I associated Kevin with my own limitations—with not only suffering, but defeat. Eva” — Lionel Shriver Failure Copy Share Image
“We all do it (or I used to-yes, once in a while, Franklin, what did you think?), we all know we all… — Lionel Shriver Sexuality Copy Share Image
It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing. — Lionel Shriver Arguing Copy Share Image
Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment. — Lionel Shriver Country Copy Share Image
Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes. — Lionel Shriver Issues Copy Share Image
“We white folks cling to such an abiding sense of entitlement that when things go amiss, we cannot let go of this… — Lionel Shriver Life Copy Share Image
“I bask in their heatedness as before a woodstove. My own apathy is bone chilling.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that… — Lionel Shriver Adults Copy Share Image
“But after I’d survived for so long on the scraps from my own emotional table, you spoiled me with a daily banquet… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as… — Lionel Shriver Chocolate Copy Share Image
“It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
A pre-nup is an insurance policy or, in brokerage terms, a short hedge - meant to mitigate a high-risk investment. It safeguards… — Lionel Shriver Character Copy Share Image
“Now, over the years I've been forced to conclude that most celebrations don't work. The more carefully planned a signal occasion, the… — Lionel Shriver Birthday Copy Share Image
You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself. — Lionel Shriver Different Copy Share Image
Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home. — Lionel Shriver Coming home Copy Share Image
