...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“He was already intuiting that attachment - if only to a squirt gun - made him vulnerable.” — Lionel Shriver Attachment Copy Share Image
Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment. — Lionel Shriver Country Copy Share Image
Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed. — Lionel Shriver 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
Formal declarations of mistrust, pre-nups are emotionally unfortunate. They overtly plan for failure, and thus involve a jarring cognitive dissonance. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“The gap between most people’s capacity to conjure beauty from scratch and to merely recognize it when they see it is the… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere… — Lionel Shriver Change Copy Share Image
It was important to me to put together a future history that would scan, and serve as the backdrop to the domestic… — Lionel Shriver Economics Copy Share Image
We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to… — Lionel Shriver Agony Copy Share Image
At the keyboard, unrelenting anguish about hurting other people's feelings inhibits spontaneity and constipates creativity. — Lionel Shriver Creativity Copy Share Image
Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray… — Lionel Shriver Backfire Copy Share Image
In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one… — Lionel Shriver Accomplishment 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
As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn't have to be a dress: a desk,… — Lionel Shriver Childhood Copy Share Image
“Later you referenced that anecdote to illustrate that my expectations were always preposterously outsized; that my very ravenousness for the exotic was… — Lionel Shriver Anecdote Copy Share Image
We are not attracted to people because they are virtuous. In fact, there's something a little creepy about people who are too… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“...Remember that nutty little story I told you about the first time I ever went overseas for my junior year abroad at… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Speak of the devil. Luella had wandered in wearing what might once have been a stylish frock, but the hem was shredded… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with… — 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
“I'm unsure why one trifling incident this afternoon has moved me to write to you. But since we've been separated, I may… — Lionel Shriver Coming home Copy Share Image
But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“And of course Brian was far more upset about separation from those two blond moppets than about leaving Louise. There shouldn't be… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Okay, it's like this. You wake up, you watch TV, and you get in the car and you listen to the radio.… — Lionel Shriver Books Copy Share Image
“Tragedy seems to bring out all varieties of unexpected qualities in people. It was as if some folks got dunked in plastic,… — Lionel Shriver Agony Copy Share Image
“The idea is that you don't only have one destiny. Younger and younger, kids are pressed to decide what they want to… — Lionel Shriver Advantages and disadvantages Copy Share Image
“Outside, she thought that there ought to be a word for it: the air temperature that was perfectly neither hot nor cold.… — Lionel Shriver Happiness Copy Share Image
“It was really rather wretched that you couldn’t will yourself to fall in love, for the very effort can keep falling at… — Lionel Shriver Fall in love 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 does that mean, your dad 'loves' you and hasn't a [bleep]ing clue who you are? What's he love then? Some kid in Happy Days. Not me.” quote by Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb1/lionel-shriver-744_dad_i-d-get-this-i-luuuuuuuv-you-buddy-stuff_3038633.jpg)
