394 Quotes by Lionel Shriver

Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.

He could see how this liberating condition could grow progressive. How in the face of an end game there was virtually no limit to what did not matter. Returned.

The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.

Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it’s against the rules, isn’t it, to actually have a baby and spend any time at all on that banished parallel life in which you didn’t.

So much lying in marriage is merely a matter of keeping quiet.

Yet in my experience, when left to their own devices people will get up to one of two things: nothing much, and no good.

One of the things I learned with Charles,” said Gray carefully, “was that finding someone like you does not necessarily mean that either of you should be that way.

Reading time is precious. Don’t waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

Just because there are lots of them doesn’t mean that the hot apple pies aren’t excellent or that it isn’t a privilege to live in a time when you can buy them for 99 cents. That was one of your favorite themes: that profusion, replication, popularity wasn’t necessarily devaluing, and that time itself made all things rare.