Quotes by Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

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Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mis — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed. — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Time itself made all things rare. — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people c — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
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 — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profes — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
I may have spent long enough in your orbit to have absorbed your ferocious conviction that a happy family cannot be a me — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civiliz — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out to be a killer" would never have turned up on the list — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
For years I’d been awaiting that overriding urge I’d always heard about, the narcotic pining that draws childless women — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
You know that euphemism, she’s expecting? It’s apt. The birth of a baby, so long as it’s healthy, is something to look f — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Franklin, I was absolutely terrified of having a child. Before I got pregnant, my visions of child rearing- reading stor — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
These were good people and they had been good to us and we had therefore had a good time. To conclude otherwise was frig — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
The last thing we want to admit is that the forbidden fruit on which we have been gnawing since reaching the magic age o — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
He wasn't mad, he was sad. — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Are you chuckling yet? Because then along came you. A big, broad meat eater with brash blond hair and ruddy skin that bu — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade. — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin