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
Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion. — Lionel Shriver Discover Copy Share Image
Laws to protect 'public health' are potentially infinite, especially once they no longer have to be supported by any research whatsoever. — Lionel Shriver Health Copy Share Image
When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall.… — Lionel Shriver Capote 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 Companionship Copy Share Image
“Kevin folded his arms and looked satisfied; I had gone back to playing Mother. “I knew exactly what I was doing.” He… — Lionel Shriver Parenting 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 Older Copy Share Image
“The energy it sapped from him, not being able to protect her. You wouldn't think that something you couldn't do and were… — Lionel Shriver Energy Copy Share Image
“We agreed that whether we became parents would be 'the single most important decision we would ever make together.' Yet the very… — Lionel Shriver Important decision 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
Edith Wharton was a natural story-teller. As plots do in real life, hers flow directly from character. Her prose is so effortlessly… — Lionel Shriver Character Copy Share Image
“His face churned. That was the point, before he said a word, that he broke her heart. The contortion of those muscles… — Lionel Shriver Broke Heart Copy Share Image
History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had… — Lionel Shriver Earth 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
In the era of Venus Williams, girliness and goo isn't the way to every woman's heart. Yet publishers presume that women only… — Lionel Shriver Books 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 Eating 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 Aimlessness Copy Share Image
When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of… — Lionel Shriver Dreams Copy Share Image
I might defend the reviewing trade, but a handful of haughty hired hands no longer having the last word on books is… — Lionel Shriver Bad Copy Share Image
“Oh, you knew exactly what I meant. Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And one of our… — Lionel Shriver Happiness Copy Share Image
Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day. — Lionel Shriver Books Copy Share Image
“I was reminded of the time I got a free upgrade to first class, where I sat right next to Sean Connery.… — Lionel Shriver First 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
“No such thing as larger-than-life, Kellogg. There's only life-size, and any magnification is just other people's bullshit.” — Lionel Shriver Life size Copy Share Image
In economics, 'competitiveness' does not describe Barack Obama's insistence on not only being president of the U.S. but also beating his staff… — Lionel Shriver Being Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on… — Lionel Shriver Childhood 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
“I felt expendable, throw-away, swallowed by a big biological project that I didn't initiate or choose, that produced me but would also… — Lionel Shriver Swallowed Copy Share Image
“Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never… — Lionel Shriver Desire Copy Share Image
“We shared a sympathetic look, mutually marveling that kids who commit grown-up crimes still have their little-boy sweet tooth.” — Lionel Shriver Sweet tooth 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 Entitlement Copy Share Image
'The Feminine Mystique' goads me to gratitude that, thanks to forerunners like Betty Friedan, I've had the opportunity to pursue a career. — Lionel Shriver Career 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
“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 Magenta Copy Share Image
But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you… — Lionel Shriver Excellence Copy Share Image
“What did I expect, that you would wrap my rib cage with those enormous hands in which horses must be measured, lifting… — Lionel Shriver Rib cage Copy Share Image
As individuals are best off believing they control their behaviour, the judiciary is best off imputing that control - barring powerful extenuating… — Lionel Shriver Best 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 Disguises Copy Share Image
“Just because there are lots of them doesn't mean that it isn't a privilege to live in a time when you can… — Lionel Shriver Apple pie Copy Share Image
“Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came… — Lionel Shriver Cunt Copy Share Image
