Quotes by Lionel Shriver

About Lionel Shriver:

Lionel Shriver is an American journalist and author. She is best known for her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005.
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You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.

Lionel Shriver

Per quanto ammirevole, il tuo bisogno impellente di sacrificare l'esistenza per il bene di un'altra persona poteva dipendere dal fatto che quando avevi la vita interamente nelle tue mani, non sapevi che fartene. Immolarsi a volte è un'inutile scappa...

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My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.

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...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

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But I was beginning to intuit that full-blown maturity was not so very different from childhood. Both states in their extreme were all about following the rules.

Lionel Shriver

I glory in the emotionally commonplace

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I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

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He wasn't mad, he was sad.

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The secret is that there is no secret.

Lionel Shriver

We all do it (or I used to-yes, once in a while, Franklin, what did you think?), we all know we all do it, but it isn't customary to say, "Honey, could you keep an eye on the spaghetti sauce, because I'm going to go masturbate.

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I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

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Time itself made all things rare.

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Time hangs off me like molting skin.

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Like so many of our neighbors who latched onto tragedy to stand out from the crowd -- slavery, incest, a suicide -- I had exaggerated the ethnic chip on my shoulder for effect. I've learned since that tragedy is not to be hoarded. Only the untouched,...

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I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

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I came to regard my body in a new light. For the first time I apprehended the little mounds on my chest as teats for the suckling of young, and their physical resemblance to udders on cows or the swinging distensions on lactating hounds was suddenly ...

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The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

Lionel Shriver

But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had adopted the prevaricator's credo that one doesn't so much fabricate a lie as marry it. A successful lie cannot be brought int...

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Author Bio

  • NameLionel Shriver
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornMay 18, 1957
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Author; Novelist