“Take care of the components, ad the sum of their parts unfolds as if by magic.” — Lionel Shriver Components Copy Share Image
“I've never been shy. I've just waited until I had something to say.” — Lionel Shriver Just Copy Share Image
“Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]” — Lionel Shriver Kindness Copy Share Image
A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book. — Lionel Shriver Between Copy Share Image
I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us. — Lionel Shriver Catholic Copy Share Image
“This sounds idiotic, but every time I encounter a picture of myself I am shocked to have been seen.” — Lionel Shriver Idiotic Copy Share Image
What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away. — Lionel Shriver Away Copy Share Image
The dumbest childhood vow I ever made was to finish every book I started. — Lionel Shriver Book Copy Share Image
We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left… — Lionel Shriver 21st century Copy Share Image
I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already… — Lionel Shriver Common Copy Share Image
I never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly thirty-three by then, and my past… — Lionel Shriver Companionship Copy Share Image
The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport. — Lionel Shriver Airports Copy Share Image
Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them,… — Lionel Shriver Advent Copy Share Image
Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks. — Lionel Shriver Bricks Copy Share Image
Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell. — Lionel Shriver Blot Copy Share Image
In the perfect world, no one would need pre-nups. But all too often, a misty-eyed romancer at the altar transforms into a… — Lionel Shriver Marriage Copy Share Image
For the left-leaning, political identity is liable to be closely intertwined with personal identity. The left is collusive, if not presumptuous: should… — Lionel Shriver Identity Copy Share Image
I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had… — Lionel Shriver Ahead Copy Share Image
Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious… — Lionel Shriver Anorexia 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 Feel free Copy Share Image
“Having buck teeth in junior high,” she rounded up unsteadily, “must be ideal preparation for getting old. For pretty people, aging is… — Lionel Shriver Aging 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
“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
“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 Child 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 Disaster Copy Share Image
“It was a short session of the simple being-ness that he had long coveted for The Afterlife. What Glynis had called "doing… — Lionel Shriver Companionship Copy Share Image
“Franklin, I was absolutely terrified of having a child. Before I got pregnant, my visions of child rearing- reading stories about cabooses… — Lionel Shriver Children Copy Share Image
“Pregnancy had seemed a reasonable excuse for letting her metal-smithing tools languish, but that accounted for only eighteen months of the last… — Lionel Shriver Artists Copy Share Image
“The very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it.” — Lionel Shriver Unattractiveness Copy Share Image
“I am a bundle of other people's histories, a creature of circumstance.” — Lionel Shriver Circumstance Copy Share Image
The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.' — Lionel Shriver Book Copy Share Image
Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed. — Lionel Shriver Dangerous Copy Share Image
Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment. — Lionel Shriver Country Copy Share Image
“I've found that people's generalizations are largely illuminating about themselves.” — Lionel Shriver Generalizations 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
“He didn't like to be seen needing it - as if hunger were a sign of weakness.” — Lionel Shriver Hunger Copy Share Image
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