394 Quotes by Lionel Shriver

Language is alive, and you can’t put it in the freezer. But.

After all, a forgivable shyness and social discomfort could easily be mistaken for their more aggressive counterparts: aloofness and hostility.

I wasn’t brave, but I was stubborn and prideful. Sheer obstinacy is far more durable than courage, though it’s not as pretty.

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

Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

Likewise, the simple adjacency of warm bodies supplies the deepest of animal comfort.

Blame confers an awesome power. And it’s simplifying, not only to onlookers and victims, but to culprits most of all.

Education is not a steady process of accrual, but a touch-and-go contest between learning and forgetting, like frantically trying to fill a sink faster than it can empty through an open drain – which.

It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.