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Lionel Shriver quotes: Time itself made all things rare. Time itself made all things rare.
Lionel Shriver quotes: So many stories are determined before they start. So many stories are determined before they start.
Lionel Shriver quotes: It is always difficult to impress the ignorant. It is always difficult to impress the ignorant.
Lionel Shriver quotes: I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules. I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.
Lionel Shriver quotes: The existence of other people is essentially awkward. The existence of other people is essentially awkward.
Lionel Shriver quotes: [T]he cardboard bookcase of her character had already collapsed under the strain. [T]he cardboard bookcase of her character had already collapsed under the strain.
Lionel Shriver quotes: One of us could always get pancreatic cancer," you said pleasantly. One of us could always get pancreatic cancer," you said pleasantly.
Lionel Shriver quotes: I have never in all my life considered you other people. I have never in all my life considered you other people.
Lionel Shriver quotes: I am a bundle of other people's histories, a creature of circumstance. I am a bundle of other people's histories, a creature of circumstance.
Lionel Shriver quotes: unto me a son was born, and I felt nothing. unto me a son was born, and I felt nothing.
Lionel Shriver quotes: And there's an ownership to destruction, an intimacy: an appropriation. And there's an ownership to destruction, an intimacy: an appropriation.
Lionel Shriver quotes: There's something nihilistic about not having children There's something nihilistic about not having children
Lionel Shriver quotes: The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity. The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting it. Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting it.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed. Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Complacency has a way of restoring itself of its own accord Complacency has a way of restoring itself of its own accord
Lionel Shriver quotes: For the living, death is thievery. For the living, death is thievery.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Orderliness readily slides to conformity over time. Orderliness readily slides to conformity over time.
Lionel Shriver quotes: I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt with the forlorn 'Well so what's next? I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt with the forlorn 'Well so
what's next?
Lionel Shriver quotes: They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches. Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Fear is an isometric exercise Fear is an isometric exercise
Lionel Shriver quotes: Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi? Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?
Lionel Shriver quotes: Just because you learn something in adulthood doesn't mean it's fake. Just because you learn something in adulthood doesn't mean it's fake.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home. Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.
Lionel Shriver quotes: He wasn't mad, he was sad. He wasn't mad, he was sad.
Lionel Shriver quotes: People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment. People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
Lionel Shriver quotes: You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself. You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.
Lionel Shriver quotes: We shared a sympathetic look, mutually marveling that kids who commit grown-up crimes still have their little-boy sweet tooth. We shared a sympathetic look, mutually marveling that kids who commit grown-up crimes still have their little-boy sweet tooth.
Lionel Shriver quotes: It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in. It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110] Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]
Lionel Shriver quotes: So when I said I'd miss him, I meant I would miss what we had not experienced, and I don't know what that's called: nostalgia for what didn't happen. So when I said I'd miss him, I meant I would miss what we had not experienced, and I don't know what that's called: nostalgia for what didn't happen.
Lionel Shriver quotes: A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury. A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.
Lionel Shriver quotes: The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job. The good life doesn't knock on the door.
Joy is a job.
Lionel Shriver quotes: I glory in the emotionally commonplace I glory in the emotionally commonplace
Lionel Shriver quotes: He was already intuiting that attachment - if only to a squirt gun - made him vulnerable. He was already intuiting that attachment - if only to a squirt gun - made him vulnerable.
Lionel Shriver quotes: In Kevin's book, unwitnessed disobedience is wasteful. In Kevin's book, unwitnessed disobedience is wasteful.
Lionel Shriver quotes: This sounds idiotic, but every time I encounter a picture of myself I am shocked to have been seen. I do not, under ordinary circumstances, feel seen. This sounds idiotic, but every time I encounter a picture of myself I am shocked to have been seen. I do not, under ordinary circumstances, feel seen.
Lionel Shriver quotes: I always prefer socializing at night-it is implicitly more wanton I always prefer socializing at night-it is implicitly more wanton
Lionel Shriver quotes: I bask in their heatedness as before a woodstove. My own apathy is bone chilling. I bask in their heatedness as before a woodstove. My own apathy is bone chilling.
Lionel Shriver quotes: In the very instant of his birth, I associated Kevin with my own limitations - with not only suffering, but defeat. Eva In the very instant of his birth, I associated Kevin with my own limitations - with not only suffering, but defeat. Eva
Lionel Shriver quotes: The secret is that there is no secret. The secret is that there is no secret.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Presenting emotions as facts-which they are-affords a fragile defense. Presenting emotions as facts-which they are-affords a fragile defense.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Between ourselves, I've started to worry that in some backhanded way I've become attached to the disfigurement of my own life. Between ourselves, I've started to worry that in some backhanded way I've become attached to the disfigurement of my own life.
Lionel Shriver quotes: There is something implicitly uninteresting about the look of a person who will tell you whatever you want to know. There is something implicitly uninteresting about the look of a person who will tell you whatever you want to know.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Why would you want to sell millions of people on the illusion that they knew you, when they didn't? Why would you want to sell millions of people on the illusion that they knew you, when they didn't?
Lionel Shriver quotes: What is cool changes; that there is such a thing as cool is immutable. What is cool changes; that there is such a thing as cool is immutable.
Lionel Shriver quotes: However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse ... We are meant to be hungry. However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse ... We are meant to be hungry.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Time itself makes all things rare. Time itself makes all things rare.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Other people savor the symmetry of opposites. Other people savor the symmetry of opposites.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Franklin, the whole house was on Zoloft. Franklin, the whole house was on Zoloft.
Lionel Shriver quotes: How much did you care about anything that went on in my head until it got out? How much did you care about anything that went on in my head until it got out?
Lionel Shriver quotes: And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate. Some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.
Lionel Shriver quotes: You had bought us some other family's dream house. You had bought us some other family's dream house.
Lionel Shriver quotes: It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing. It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.
Lionel Shriver quotes: You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it. You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.
Lionel Shriver quotes: I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray. I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Was our life together that unbearable? Was our life together that unbearable?
Lionel Shriver quotes: Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks. Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty. Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.
Lionel Shriver quotes: You restored me to the concept of home. You restored me to the concept of home.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Incredibly, the self-starved never appear capable of taking any pleasure in the very vessel for which they've sacrificed. Incredibly, the self-starved never appear capable of taking any pleasure in the very vessel for which they've sacrificed.
Lionel Shriver quotes: He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing. He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Just cause you get used to something doesn't mean you like it." He added, snapping the magenta, "You're used to me. 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 quotes: It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them
Lionel Shriver quotes: Violence is anything an airplane can do to a cloud Violence is anything an airplane can do to a cloud
Lionel Shriver quotes: Only the untouched, the well-fed and contented, could possibly covet suffering like a designer jacket. Only the untouched, the well-fed and contented, could possibly covet suffering like a designer jacket.
Lionel Shriver quotes: In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable. In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.
Lionel Shriver quotes: My own apathy is bone chilling. My own apathy is bone chilling.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly. Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.
Lionel Shriver quotes: They had no comprehension of why anyone would seek out a film with an unhappy ending or buy a painting that wasn't pretty. They had no comprehension of why anyone would seek out a film with an unhappy ending or buy a painting that wasn't pretty.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment. Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.
Lionel Shriver quotes: It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood. It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one. Trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.
Lionel Shriver quotes: my mother sees chaos biting at her doorstep, while the rest of us inhabit a fabricated playscape whose benevolence is a collective delusion. my mother sees chaos biting at her doorstep, while the rest of us inhabit a fabricated playscape whose benevolence is a collective delusion.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt. Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt.
Lionel Shriver quotes: That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable. That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
Lionel Shriver quotes: The liberation of adulthood as we'd conceived it from below was a pipe-dream; with oppressors deposed we became our own tyrants. The liberation of adulthood as we'd conceived it from below was a pipe-dream; with oppressors deposed we became our own tyrants.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon. Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.
Lionel Shriver quotes: I long ago gave up defending humanity. It's beyond me on most days to defend myself. I long ago gave up defending humanity. It's beyond me on most days to defend myself.
Lionel Shriver quotes: The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Real poverty is about doing what you have to do as opposed to what you want. Real poverty is about doing what you have to do as opposed to what you want.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Like most disguises, the cover-up was worse than honest flaw, a lesson I had yet to register on my own account. Like most disguises, the cover-up was worse than honest flaw, a lesson I had yet to register on my own account.
Lionel Shriver quotes: There's no more doomed a struggle than a battle with the imaginary. There's no more doomed a struggle than a battle with the imaginary.
Lionel Shriver quotes: For Celia, her whole surround was animate, and each tapioca lump had a dense, nauseating little soul. For Celia, her whole surround was animate, and each tapioca lump had a dense, nauseating little soul.
Lionel Shriver quotes: A boy is a dangerous animal. A boy is a dangerous animal.
Lionel Shriver quotes: I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you feel safe. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you feel safe.
Lionel Shriver quotes: That it was valuable rather than merely expensive. Ramsey's That it was valuable rather than merely expensive. Ramsey's
Lionel Shriver quotes: He didn't like to be seen needing it - as if hunger were a sign of weakness. He didn't like to be seen needing it - as if hunger were a sign of weakness.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Discomfort begets discomfort in others. Discomfort begets discomfort in others.
Lionel Shriver quotes: I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts. I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat
Lionel Shriver quotes: How lucky we are, when we are spared what we think we want! How lucky we are, when we are spared what we think we want!
Lionel Shriver quotes: Never lie about my age because I want credit for every damned year. Never lie about my age because I want credit for every damned year.
Lionel Shriver quotes: But too strictly observed, most sacraments grow hollow. But too strictly observed, most sacraments grow hollow.
Lionel Shriver quotes: I mean when I was a kid, parents called the shots. Now I'm a parent, kids call the shots. So we get fucked coming and going. I can't believe this. I mean when I was a kid, parents called the shots. Now I'm a parent, kids call the shots. So we get fucked coming and going. I can't believe this.
Lionel Shriver quotes: The gap between most people's capacity to conjure beauty from scratch and to merely recognize it when they see it is the width of the Atlantic Ocean. The gap between most people's capacity to conjure beauty from scratch and to merely recognize it when they see it is the width of the Atlantic Ocean.
Lionel Shriver quotes: Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them . Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .

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