Quote by Lionel Shriver Download Open image ““I bask in their heatedness as before a woodstove. My own apathy is bone chilling.”” — Lionel Shriver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“In the peace of winter’s chill, I stacked firewood to fuel a stove that kept me warm. And I thought about how doing something… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“When I said these words, all the heat in my body seemed to rise to my face. I felt I might float up into… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“You ain't no woodstove; you can't just squat in the middle of my house and stew.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the bravest thing in the world was to sit through the night and feel the cold in your bones.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“It is a fact that even warming moments overwhelm me with despair, and this is why I am I.” — Morrissey Copy Share Image
“Women always said he was warm. They snuggled with him in bed, grateful for the heat. A couple of his lovers even claimed that,… — Christina Dodd Copy Share Image
“She paused for a moment, closing her eyes, letting the early morning heat sink deep into her bones. Unlike most people, she loved warm… — Suzanne Woods Fisher Copy Share Image
“When you tend to another's dying embers, you find both warmth and an increase in the glow of your own fire.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I felt dry as if someone had skinned me. I was not the bones and meat, but the cast-aside skin. The heat had hollowed… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t that cold--she’d thought to let the embers do for the night--but she felt the sudden need for the comfort of a fire,… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“I grin at the fierce burn in my legs, in my chest.Using pain to relieve pain. It doesn't make much sense.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“You said that cold is merely the absence of heat. Well, heat is back... and they call her Rouge” — Isabella Modra 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
