Quote by Lionel Shriver Download Open image ““At some point there was no almost.”” — Lionel Shriver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It seemed like almost nothing had happened, but that almost nothing changed everything for me.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.” — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Though there was nowhere one so busy as he/ He was less busy than he seemed to be.” — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was more than that. Maybe some things shouldn't be explained.” — Gregg Olsen Copy Share Image
“To me, there's no point in talking about things that might have been.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“But then I remembered: the universe was closed, and so very small. There was really nowhere else to go.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I’m a journalist, and journalists need news. Deprive them of it, and they go a bit barking. Deprive them of news long enough, and… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“One of the things I learned with Charles," said Gray carefully, "was that finding someone like you does not necessarily mean that either of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go… — Lionel Shriver 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 do with… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.” — Lionel Shriver 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 Copy Share Image
We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I think that's the biggest favor you can grant anyone, don't you? Permission to be dull. I know Henry will sometimes say something so… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image