394 Quotes by Lionel Shriver

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.

But the one thing he could not have imagined is that we were withholding nothing. That there was nothing on the other side of our silly rules; nothing.

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.

Sometimes things end worse for one side than the other. These 'injured parties' always seem to see themselves as victims of a moral outrage. They never feel simply rejected, but also abused. I've known many women who were great believers in the curative powers of indignation.

Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

...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.