We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans. — Lionel Shriver Climate Copy Share Image
However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them . — Lionel Shriver Secret Copy Share Image
Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. — Lionel Shriver Attachment Copy Share Image
“How much did you care about anything that went on in my head until it got out?” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
As a woman, I'd be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general. — Lionel Shriver Being Copy Share Image
“[T]he cardboard bookcase of her character had already collapsed under the strain.” — Lionel Shriver 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
“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
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
The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else.… — Lionel Shriver Books Copy Share Image
“Children live in the same world we do.To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive, it's a… — Lionel Shriver Child Copy Share Image
“Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And one of our consuming diversions as we age is to… — Lionel Shriver Age 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
“The feeling was not of being attractive precisely, but rather of not having to entertain. It was breathtaking: to be ensconced in… — Lionel Shriver Business 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
“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
“It was peculiar how the more you got to know someone, the more you grew to appreciate how little you knew, how… — Lionel Shriver Romance 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
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 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
Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Only the untouched, the well-fed and contented, could possibly covet suffering like a designer jacket.” — Lionel Shriver Fashion Copy Share Image
Ever since Hiroshima, we've been faced with the depressing fact that you cannot un-invent something. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“A obstinação pura e simples é mais durável que a coragem, embora não seja tão” — Lionel Shriver Amor 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
A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“This sounds idiotic, but every time I encounter a picture of myself I am shocked to have been seen.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Take care of the components, ad the sum of their parts unfolds as if by magic.” — 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
“I've never been shy. I've just waited until I had something to say.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“...never lie about my age because I want credit for every damned year.” — Lionel Shriver Credit Copy Share Image
It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in. — Lionel Shriver Apathy Copy Share Image
I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray. — Lionel Shriver Dog Copy Share Image
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