No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that they exist. And his own adult future isn't real to him, either. Makes it that much easier to throw away.
Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly. - Lionel Shriver
Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.
- Lionel Shriver
Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks. - Lionel Shriver
Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.
It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing. - Lionel Shriver
It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.
Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. - Lionel Shriver
Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood. - Lionel Shriver
It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.
Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year. - Lionel Shriver
Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.
Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with… - Lionel Shriver
Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with…
...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who … - Lionel Shriver
...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who …
Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon. - Lionel Shriver
Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.
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