394 Quotes by Lionel Shriver

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Se supone que los hombres piensan en el sexo todo el tiempo, pero él ya no lo hacía, y ahora lo recordaba con tanta fuerza que dolía.

The existence of other people is essentially awkward.

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

She herself was only sixty, though hers was the first generation to append "only" to such a sobering milestone.

That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.

To a man and woman, all of her elderly patients had been surprised to be old - which Avery privately regarded as a serious failure to pay attention.

A boy is a dangerous animal.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.