“The very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I think Britain is a little better at bringing intellectuals into discourse than America, where I'm from. Though I would say, perhaps,… — Lionel Shriver America Copy Share Image
“I am confessedly and unashamedly almost fifty years old and never lie about my age because I want credit for every damned… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable. — Lionel Shriver Boys Copy Share Image
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether… — Lionel Shriver Hung Copy Share Image
Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of… — Lionel Shriver Branches Copy Share Image
The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's… — Lionel Shriver Affliction Copy Share Image
“I had created my own Other Woman who happened to be a boy. I'd seen this in-house cuckolding in other families, and… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases. — Lionel Shriver Plausible Copy Share Image
It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of… — Lionel Shriver Civilization 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 Era Copy Share Image
When Mexico enjoys an economic boom while the U.S. is in dire fiscal straights, it seemed perfectly credible that Mexico would not… — Lionel Shriver Economic Copy Share Image
...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances. — Lionel Shriver Appearance Copy Share Image
I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done. — Lionel Shriver Born Copy Share Image
One of my problems with terrorism is that it's self-evidently bad. The main thing that makes it complicated is the fact that… — Lionel Shriver Accomplish Copy Share Image
Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them . — Lionel Shriver Secret Copy Share Image
For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in an accumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely… — Lionel Shriver Accumulation 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
“In fact, because the unself-aware—which includes basically everybody—are impervious to uncharitable perceptions of their underlying motives, all these insights you have into… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight… — Lionel Shriver Average Copy Share Image
A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum. — Lionel Shriver Always Copy Share Image
“What would I like to get away from? Complexity. Anxiety. A feeling I've had my whole life that at any given time… — Lionel Shriver Coming home 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 with… — Lionel Shriver Children Copy Share Image
Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve. — Lionel Shriver Clumsy Copy Share Image
